Meditations on God

Healthy relationships should be challenging.

They create friction.

They push you to grow and change.

Healthy relationships motivate you, and sometimes even force you, to become a better person.

Healthy relationships also offer comfort, safety, and security.

They are a place of rest and rejuvenation, a respite from the difficulties of life in a world that can sometimes be cold and cruel.

A healthy relationship may not always be comfortable.

It may even be painful at times, but it should never be injurious.

All of that is to say that a healthy relationship is complex and complicated, just like you and I.