believe that our relationships deteriorate when we don’t listen to one another. Let me give you three points about listening. First, listening is right in itself because it is respectful. Second, listening is therapeutic. It gives the person who is speaking the opportunity to put their trouble into words, and when you put your problem into words you automatically diminish it. Our problems are at their worst when they lurk in the dark corners of our hearts, but when we bring them out and articulate