The Power and Peril of the Tongue: Psychology of Words that Build or Burn

Most of the damage we do to the people we love isn’t with our hands—it’s with our mouths. We don’t shove; we slice. We rationalize our contemptuous insults as “honesty,” we call our impatience “just being direct,” and excuse our fury as “having big feelings.” Then we wonder why our relationships fail. Jesus is clear and cuts straight to the bone, “It is…