Broken relationships are hard to mend, they tear and snag, and drag you down.

Most importantly, they affect those around you. There is a common misconception that must be brought to light. People believe a broken relationship between two people only affects those two people. I’m here to tell you this is not so.

A broken relationship starts off like a small crack on a clay pot, soon that crack creates several other cracks, all the while weakening the structure of the clay pot. Those small cracks, then create cracks of their own, making a web. Sooner or later the pot will collapse. You can try and prevent this collapse, but if all you do is cover the crack up, that doesn’t get rid of the problem.

Broken relationships are far worse than people believe they are. If all you do is hide the problem, or pretend it doesn’t exist, the people around you will start to crack too, and whether you like it or not the whole structure will fall apart. I’m not saying all broken relationships should be fixed, or that they can be. What I’m saying is that they need to be brought to attention. They can’t be ignored. The crack has to be stopped before it creates more cracks, and destroys everything.

When in you’re in a family, whether it be of blood or of friends, one bad relationship affects all the other relationships. Everyone feels the burden, everyone is hurting from it. You can’t expect it to heal itself. You can’t pretend it doesn’t exist. Everyone suffers from it. Whether you like it or not, everyone is involved and it should be that everyone pitches in and tries to help fix it, or stop it before it gets worse.

Let those around you, and most importantly, let God, be the glue that mends the crack. Don’t just let the whole thing fall apart.

Broken relationships are hard to mend, they tear and snag, and drag you down.