[NeillAlexander]

"Once you start fighting with Maven, it’ll never return to the rosy days when your relationship was young."

The key is, you don't start fighting with Maven.

"The philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan is that if one uses hardness to resist violent force, then both sides are certain to be injured at least to some degree. Such injury, according to tai chi theory, is a natural consequence of meeting brute force with brute force. Instead, students are taught not to directly fight or resist an incoming force, but to meet it in softness and follow its motion while remaining in physical contact until the incoming force of attack exhausts itself or can be safely redirected, meeting yang with yin." (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi_chuan)

If you fight with Maven, you will lose. If you meet it in softness and follow its motion you will attain build enlightenment...