3 months, 4 weeks ago

Practice the pause

You decide you need to rest. You have an early dinner, announce your plans to sleep in, and go to sleep, letting yourself awake slowly instead of being alarmed into wakefulness. Now, in this situation, do you expect at that time, for your partner to be super sweet to you, glad that you had a wonderful restful sleep, and tell you sweet things,? If, over time, your relationship has found itself getting stretched by the demands of a busy life, and you have experienced a fair degree of sniping at each other as expectations have waxed and waned over the years, you might have gotten used to a whole lot of seemingly funny but ultimately taunting commentary when you get to relax or take a break when the other doesn’t. It might come in small snappy things like, “Look who is up, finally!” Or a funnier, “Hey, are you going to bed so early?” but you start reading resentment into it.

New Indian Express
Practice the pause
4 months, 1 week ago

Practice the pause

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