It's easy to feel down when someone you knew or loved most, leaves—sometimes it seems like that feeling will never go away. But people often miss that this same loss can also breed a real kind of joy and faithfulness in a person, when we think about their best qualities.

Disagreement is inevitable, but it's often the people we're most different from in life that we end up learning the most from, and therefore tend to be the most attracted to. Often just conceding to one another in love (sometimes tongue in cheek) is the quickest path to grow—as long as our deeper beliefs and values aren't compromised.