Problem with understanding natural number difference

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Proofwiki says the following about difference in natural numbers:

In the context of the natural numbers, the difference is defined as:

$n−m=p⟺m+p=n$

from which it can be seen that the above congruence can be understood as:

$(x_1,y_1)⊠(x_2,y_2)⟺x_1+y_2=x_2+y_1⟺x_1−y_1=x_2−y_2$

Thus this congruence defines an equivalence between pairs of elements which have the same difference.

What does that all mean? I don't understand it at all. Why did they call $n−m=p⟺m+p=n$ a congruence? How does it imply that $(x_1,y_1)(x_2,y_2)⟺x_1+y_2=x_2+y_1⟺x_1−y_1=x_2−y_2$?

Here is the definition of $⊠$.