Why Postpone the Inevitable?

Following through on old matters today. Amazing how much easier it would have been to have faced these issues when they first arose. Why do we tend to wait until our hand is forced? And depending on one's threshold for pain, it can be quite a while before some of us get to that breaking point. And breaking is exactly what it feels like.
And so maybe I have answered my own question. We may feel we risk breaking if we confront some of these difficult issues. What form the breaking takes is, of course, unknown. But that unknown risk is fearsome enough that we are persuaded to hope, however vainly, that the problem may just resolve itself if we ignore it long enough. Ah, silly man. Postpone action at your own peril. The wise do not so blithely ignore the lessons of past mistakes.