A calm hard conversation today buys a lot more peace than a quiet cold war all semester.

Avoidance does not remove a conflict; it spreads it across months in small daily doses of tension. The talk you are dreading takes twenty minutes, while the silence costs a little every day and slowly rewrites how you see each other. Difficulty concentrated is nearly always cheaper than difficulty spread thin.

Pick the one you have been putting off and have it this week, early in the day, with what you want to say prepared in a sentence. Say it plainly and then listen. Even a conversation that goes badly usually beats two more months of managing around it.