It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.
The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (ed. Hachette UK, 2011) - ISBN: 9780748128044