Challenges among friends.

It isn't an easy thing to face the people you like who at the same time directly oppose you in one way or another. Maybe it is one of the greatest challenges, really. How do you decide the correct path through the opposition? My personal example is something only I can speculate internally on but I have to say it is something I am quite unfamiliar with and do not enjoy. I don't believe it is necessarily something inherently bad to deal with, even... just another one of life's challenges... a challenge of a type with a particularly distasteful feeling.