Marriage Missions on Facebook

"If you were sitting in a boat with your [marriage] partner and your words were poking holes in that boat, would you keep insisting to be right? Would you persist with the argument only to know that the boat would sink? When we hold onto the notion that we have to win an argument [or get in the last word], we are causing direct harm to our relationship, our intimacy with our [marriage] partner, and to our friendship with our partner. Because even if we win, and know that we are right, that means that the other person has to be wrong. Since your partner is in the relationship with you, you’re going to suffer too." (John Harrison)