Hello, and welcome back to advice session, a series here on anything goes, where you send in your current dilemmas or anything that you want advice on.
And I give you my unprofessional advice.
And today's topic is confrontation, which is something that is very important to me.
I am a big fan of confrontation.
I will almost always tell someone to confront a situation if they ask me for my advice, like, hey, Emma, should I confront this person about this?
My answer is almost always going to be yes.
And my reason for that is, I think confrontation is so important.
Okay?
How the fuck are you supposed to learn from your mistake if nobody confronts you about something that you did wrong, right?
Like, let's say I said something rude to my friend, but I don't think it's rude.
How am I supposed to learn from that mistake unless my friend says, hey, what you just said was kind of rude?
We learn from being confronted.
In addition to that, I think confrontation is honestly crucial for building healthy relationships.
Now, obviously, conflict in relationships, platonic or romantic, is very complicated.
And when I'm speaking about conflict now, I'm talking about ultimately harmless conflict, right?
I'm talking about disagreeing about things in a way that is definitely uncomfortable, is definitely serious, but is not dangerous or truly harmful.
It might be kind of upsetting, it might be frustrating.
It might be even detrimental to the relationship.
But it's not dangerous.
It's not harmful.