Disagreeing is not toxic in a relationship.
Being unwilling to listen to a different perspective is.
If we are scared to have a direct conversation with someone over something that we care about or that is bothering us then we should question the strength of our relationship with them.
We might not all be great fiction writers but we certainly have the capacity to make up many stories, in our heads, of events that haven’t happened yet.
We can create some amazing stories on where things might go with a particular situation, what other people do or think, and what happens next based on that.
We spend sleepless nights working through the scenarios. But in our “choose your own adventure” story, how many times does it really come true? How many times do we get the outcome we’ve spent time worrying about?