All relationships are disappointments. Let us consider this, not so we will despair, but to open a window to let smoke out of the room. The habit of repressing the disappointments of our relationships is a strategy to numb the injuries of them. Remember the line: The common denominator of all your failed relationships is you. That’s tough to face, particularly when it seems all our relationships have failed, to one degree or another. But to let the smoke out is to recognize the fundamental problem isn’t you, but is all of us. To know there is something wrong with all of us, and to be dismayed over it, is to also know that there must be for all of us the possibility of the right, and of having right relationships. Hope springs from knowledge of the One who never failed his relationships, and has the power to repair ours. – E.O.
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