Darkness is more eligible than light to those whose deeds are evil. Many people have normal and loving family and friends, but others are experiencing conflict with their family and friends. It seems that their loved ones bring them nothing but lies, stress and hardship, even if you are kind and loving and forgiving to them.  This is a sign of the times, and it is discussed in the Bible. Fortitude stamps upon those who possess it an unfading lustre. In the case of role strain, there are contradictory expectations and demands attached to a single role, which is quite common in everyday life. When a person cannot fulfill the roles of one status without violating another, role conflict occurs. It has been prophesied that father will be against son, and son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. Sin has a habit of persisting and is remorseless in its choice of vehicles.  People usually try to fulfill their roles as they understand them, but role performances also are influenced by the fact that multiple roles are attached to almost every status.

 The parent role, for example includes all of the patterned expectations of all people with whom the parent interacts. The role set of a parent included rights and duties toward spouse, children, family, friends, employers and many others in reciprocal roles. Relationships are about exchange. There is usually a profit motive—people seek to maximize rewards and minimize cost. Social exchange is based on the norm of reciprocity—that we help not harm those who have helped us. This norm established the expectation that gifts, recognition, love, and other favors will be returned. In the course of a day, people exchange smiles, waves, and other simple courtesies. Exchanges of this kind are most often taken for granted—at least until people fail to meet our expectations. The norm of reciprocity, of course, has a negative side, which includes the expectation that hostilities, threats, social slights, and other acts meant to harm will be reciprocated. People, groups, organizations, and nations keep a running account of what they are owed and what they owe others. Top priority is given to exchange relationships with business partners, political allies, friends, kin, or lovers who provide the greatest benefits at the lowest cost. Because people have an interest in searching for the most favorable cost-benefit ratios in their dealings with others, relationships are forever shifting. Nevertheless, exchanges and ties of mutual obligations are a vital social glue.

 One man’s courage is not another’s. Your courage is skin deep. Cooperation is a pattern of interaction in which individuals, groups, and societies work together to achieve shared goals. Cooperation is fundamental to human survival; without it social life would be impossible. Cooperation sustains routine, face-to-face encounters. It is also necessary if people are to have loving relationships, raise children, protect themselves, and make a living. Good senses will shew you the power of self-conquest, and point out its means. Competition is much like cooperation, in that both individuals and groups strive to achieve a shared goal. It differs from cooperation, however, in that in competition, instead of joining with others to achieve valued goals, people or groups contest for them, recognizing that society’s prizes are in limited supply and only one group or person can attain them. Competitive relationships are especially common to capitalist economies and pervade almost all aspects of people’s lives. More sin is the only anodyne for sin, and the only way to cure the ache of conscience is to harden it. The pangs of conscience, so much vaunted by some, do most certainly drive ten deeper into sin where they bring one back to virtue. Conflict is a pattern of interaction in which people or groups struggles to achieve a commonly prized object or goal. Conflict is especially common when competitors violate rules and seek to gain their objective by any means available. There is no group or relationship, however, small and intimate, in which conflict does not occasionally occur. We most often consider conflict to be opposed to human interest, harmful to the social order, and something to be avoided or resolved as quickly as possible.

 Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience. When people or groups are compelled to interact with each other, coercion is the glue that binds them together. Coercion is the actualization of the threat of force that those with power sometimes use to achieve their objectives. The relative strength of coercion as a cohesive force lies not so much in blatant expressions of power and authority as in the myriad expressions it may assume in everyday life. Ridicule, gossip, the silent treatment, and withdrawal of affection are but a handful of coercive devices people use in their daily interactions with others. Coercion involves an individual or group that dominates another, the superordinate, and a person or group that is dominated, the subordinate. There cannot be one without the other, the behavior of one is conditioned by the other. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Our Lord took Himself the sin of the World, through identification with us, not through sympathy for us. He deliberately took on His shoulders, and endured in His own body, the complete, cumulative sin of the human race. Jesus Christ reconciled the human race, putting it back to where God designed it to be. And now anyone can experience that reconciliation, being brought into oneness with God. If your child say he hates you and he has always been nice and caring, it is a sign you are doing something wrong and ruining your relationship.