I am sure that all of us at one time or another have witnessed verbal battles between other people. I am sure that we have seen the people whom we love draw lines between themselves and others as they proclaim their position. We may have seen these battles as children as we watched our parents fight. Or, we who are parents have witnessed the verbal battles between our children which seem to go on incessantly without end. In these battles we want to scream, "Stop it! I can’t take anymore. If you are going to fight, go and do it somewhere else." Or, perhaps these battles occur between your best friends, and at those times you may feel that you are drawn into the middle of their fight. You may feel that you have to choose between them, and you don’t want to. The places that we work are also a…