The Wisdom & Patience To Pause A Heated Discussion (Clip)
When it says don't let the sun go down on your anger, it's almost like having this ability to say, I'm angry right now and maybe the best thing for me to do is to actually go to sleep but I have the ability to realize the reason why it may not be productive for us to just keep at this and going back and forth and yelling at each other or having this intense argument is look, we're probably overworked, tired, the kids, life, all of that stuff. It'd probably be good to handle this tomorrow or even just give ourselves some space but we're not going to go to bed angry about it. We're just going to say, look, I'm mad at you right now.
It's true. I hate your guts and you were a jerk tonight, right? But just agreeing to, hey, let's continue this later and always, of course, going back to it. It's not about just saying, all right, we're super pissed so let's just stop and maybe this will get resolved later because the next time you have that issue, it'll become a bigger problem.
