How about starting now, you start practicing your listening and validation skills. You're already walking in like you EXPECT things to go bad. You have a say in how it turns out. You can just as well not have things go South if you actually start trying.
M-43 W-40 2D - 9 and 5
Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet a new life.