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You know what to do, you do it well, you breathe deeply and move gently, and when you are done, you can see everything you’ve accomplished.
“If I hear about you cleaning or cooking while that baby sleeps, you’re in big trouble.” He made me feel like the very act of growing, birthing, and nursing Zoey made me a goddess suitable for worship, or at the very least unrequested foot rubs.
I bet all Wendy’s problems would be solved a lot faster if she’d only just raise her expectations and demand some help.
In every fundamental love relationship, we ask our partners to be both solid as a rock and thrillingly fun at the same time, and it’s utterly unreasonable when we get annoyed that they can’t do both.
“Sometimes what bothers us most in our own lives is what we project onto other people,”
who has the time to think about happiness? Happiness is for people with nothing better to do.
My breath comes back to me. I start to recover myself, piece by piece. As I do, I take the pictures of what just happened, the memories just formed, and fold them up into the tiniest little square of emotion that I possibly can. I fold it again and again, until the creases are bigger than the feelings themselves. I take that tiny little square of pain and hurt and betrayal and tuck it in my sternum, just under my voice box, where it is like a block of lead I only feel when I breathe. There. It can stay there forever. I can talk around it with no problem. It doesn’t even hurt that much, as long
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It’s not the stuff I do that gives my life meaning. It’s the people I do it for.
but there is a season for everything, and our job today is to figure out which one we’re in and EMBRACE IT! We are enough as it is, right now, exactly where we are, no matter what or who we’re not!”
when they’re not happy, I want them to believe they can weather the storm until it passes, knowing full well that it will.”
both paths are just a little bit wrong and just a little bit right, and which one we take is simply a matter of luck and happenstance.
