How to get over your fear of conflict

Or the cost of being 'nice'

Drawing by Tineke Tammes

BANG!! Went the glass coffee table. In a million little pieces on the floor.

Or so my mum told me afterwards. I wasn't there. My mum and dad had an argument. No, let me rephrase that. My MUM was having an argument. And my dad got so frustrated that he landed the heel of his shoe on the glass table. With the inevitable result.

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