What Keeps Us Strong

We are more connected through a hard truth (we face together) than through a pretty lie.

A couple is more connected when going through a break-up they both face the truth of together than they are in maintaining a relationship that necessitates the performance of a lie.

Family members who choose not to see each other much and talk about why & what would make it possible for it to be different are more connected — and can feel that connection difference — than those who perform togetherness.

Nothing feels as good as real connection.

The argument for hard truths is simple: it is the language of connection — and only connection, not the performance of it, can nourish the heart — keeping the part of us that will always need each other to survive strong.

What connection and functionality demand of a family → Sardines and Mansions