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Change is not the type of thing you can just force onto a family. It takes time. It takes adjustment, compassion, empathy and a whole sluice of other adjectives that solidify my point.

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Disagreements and arguments are a natural offshoot of simply trying to conduct your life with another person. “Going along to get along” causes more harm than good.

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Constructive arguments demonstrate that you’re both still passionately involved in the outcome of the relationship.

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In these disagreements, we see each other fully, glaringly.

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But by that same token, there’s a big difference between respectfully, but still causelessly, disapproving of someone and being outright rude and ignorant toward them for no reason. Disliking someone doesn’t give you a free pass to act like a jerk.