If your partnership doesn't have conflict, you're doing it wrong.
As much as it is incorrect to think that conflict creates growth it is also incorrect to think that perpetual peace produces growth. So often we act as if peace is the ultimate goal, but do you know what perpetual peace will get you? Stagnation.
Of course on the opposite end of the spectrum ongoing conflict and never-ending debate are certainly a huge negative too. Endless squabbles will create division and decimate the strength of your alliance. You cannot persist in a contentious environment because steps forward are never made. Bickering, quarrelling, and backstabbing get you nowhere. But, that said, if you want to grow you must have some meaningful exchange of opinions even if it ruffles some feathers. Perhaps even because it ruffles some feathers.
It is the exchange of new ideas that
