Getting Down

When they were young I built my daughters a "climbing toy".  It went up about four feet, and had "rungs" they could climb up.  As they began to climb they found it pretty easy to get to the top.  They they wanted me to help them down.
  "You have to learn to climb down", I said, "if you are going to climb up."  As you may know, it feels lots more scary to come down than to go up.  dfBut whether on a climbing toy, a ladder or mountain climbing, if you want to go up you have to come down, preferably with grace and safety.

I think the same thing applies in relationships.  Every once in awhile someone will "get up on her high horse" (or his high horse).  A person will make judgments, pontificate, announce sweeping pronouncements or diagnostic determinations that don't work.  Often they are wrong.
  At such a time a person needs to come down off her high horse, find a safe and graceful way to say, "I was wrong" or "I'm sorry."
If a person cannot learn to climb off her high horse comfortably enduring relationships will be hard to come by.  I wonder, in fact, how many divorces are caused by people who don't have (and maybe don't want) the skill of getting down.

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