The Little Women

When love gets down the hallway, Will you, oh will you still stay? … We all knew that love isn’t all rainbows and unicorns but muddy patches and rough edges as well. Being two heads instead of just one force us to comply with each other, to compromise & communicate. And? Yep, you got it right. Lowering our ego. Well in my case it’s everything all at once so he got the full blown (😂). A hundred percent me, of course. It’s never him. I’m the one who ghosted him for days because of my always immediate flight response (conflict avoidance —red), I’m the one who cries mid-sentence because my thoughts & feelings are all so jumbled up and I have no idea how to communicate it to him, and I’m the one who said sharp things under my breath — hoping they’d sting. So yes, he’s been so patient with me and another yes, I’m not the saint everybody thinks I am and certainly not your cheerful-everyday guy. I’m a human just as much as you with so many lessons I still have to learn too. So thank y...

It’s all part of the lullaby, you know. The fight, the worry, the make up & the story, All embossed into your own unique book of spousal relationship.  Stories that will be passed down not in form of pages but in form of habits & inner voices, subconsciousness & second nature. The love, laughs, jokes, lessons and interactions that you & your spouse have will be passed down from your child to their next of kin then to their next of kin. It will be their lullabies. Your voice will be their voice & your behavior will be their behavior. You will determine your child’s character. So help me, God. Please help me to be someone I want my children to be.  Please guide my thoughts so it will be my actions, watch my actions so it will be my habits & nurture my habits so it will become my character. Help me grow so I can watch them grow, humble me so they can be humble & sow kindness in me so kindness is what they will reap. May we all, oh may we all live a lif...