Townhall.com: Andrew Tallman: What Should We Do When We Receive Bad Christmas Gifts?::

Townhall.com: Andrew Tallman: What Should We Do When We Receive Bad Christmas Gifts?::

"Bad gifts create a sort of crisis, and the relationship can't stay where it is. It must either become stronger or weaker, and ignoring the breach can only make it weaker. Confronting it runs the risk of total ruination, but it also runs the risk of deeper intimacy. So you have to ask yourself a very simple question: Would you rather keep such relationships forever trivial by protecting them from the stress that might break them, or would you rather risk losing them in the hope that you might gain real ones in exchange? Every meaningful relationship I have is so because it survived one or more crises of honesty. The only way to get respect and real love is to tell people the truth. So here's how to do so successfully."