[url=]Scrap with the Sugarbabes: Scrap a Conversation Challenge[/url] at SSD
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https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=2195]Paradise Bound[/url] by Kristin Cronin-Barrow {SSD Quarterly Assortment}
Damask Alpha by Manda Bean {SSD Birthday Box}
Bracket shape & Stitching by Emily Merritt
Journaling: All of my life, all I ever wanted to be was a wife and a mother. Yet I was grossly unprepared for the nightmare that was my first year of marriage. I didn’t know where my loving, attentive boyfriend had gone or
where this demanding selfish husband had come from, but it didn’t take me long to figure out that I had made a huge mistake. It never occurred to me, though, that I might be doing some things wrong, too, until, trapped in a car together for 8 hours on our way home for Christmas break, we had this conversation:
Joel: You don’t respect me.Kel: Of course I do, you’re my husband. {I have to...}SILENCE{We’ve had this conversation a million times. Of course I respect him, don’t I? With another 4 hours left in our drive, I contemplate this thought, “Why does he think I don’t respect him? Could there be something I am doing that makes him feel this way?”}
Kel: What do you mean when you say I don’t respect you?
Joel: You never trust me to make the best decision; you can never just say “okay”; you tell me how to drive; you complain about me all the time... {There was more, I’m sure, but by this point a little light had gone off in my mind that got me started thinking...{While I had been so busy thinking about how miserable *he* made *me* I had never stopped to think about how he felt. And suddenly it dawned on me: HE WAS RIGHT. I DIDN’T RESPECT HIM.
That wasn’t the end of the conversation; it got a lot better. We finally talked about our expectations, our disappointments and made changes that truly altered the course of our marriage. That day,we finally learned how to love one another.
Thanks for looking! Kellie
