Warring Relationships

In a world where there is war and love, where is the happy medium? Is it with your family, a lover, your enemy, a friend, yourself, or behind a closed door. How is it that with your enemies you can rip them from lim to lim, but with those closest to you you cannot see them hurt? Your enemy is someone else's close friend or family member. Yet how is it when you were once so close to someone they can go ahead and hurt you as though you are their enemy?

Life is a vicious cycle, with its ups and downs, but why do the down seem to last longer than the ups and have more of an emotional tole of our lives. Not only do the downs affect us and who we are, but they affect the relationship we have with the people close to us. One cannot explain as to why we feel like this, it just seems to happen and its out of our control.

Will we ever be able to find the happy medium and no longer have to put on our armor to fight the battles?