Avoid This #1 Mistake When Reuniting With Your Spouse
Welcome to Marriage Minute, I'm Michelle. And I'm Steve. Today we're talking about welcoming each other home.
So maybe it was a good day, maybe it was a bad day, maybe the day felt super frustrating or really successful. Whatever it is, we all have to realize that we do bring the feelings of the day home with us. Early on in our marriage, this is something that we struggled with.
I would come home from a really good day and C would have a bad day and I'd want to tell him all about the exciting things that happened during my day and that often made him feel like I didn't care about the struggles of his day. Or on the flip side, I'd have an awful day and he'd have a good day and I'd come home wanting to vent and tell him about all the frustrating things that happened and that would ruin his excitement and optimism. The problem was that we had different expectations when we came home and our opposite attitudes often led to conflict and misunderstanding.
And so we tried something different. We waited. We didn't jump right into the news of the day or share our feelings right away and unload all that emotional baggage I guess that we'd been carrying around throughout the day.
We waited. We allowed ourselves to get into the groove of being at home and sometimes that's so important to allow yourself to get reacquainted after being a full day apart. Now I don't know if that's a challenge for anybody else but if it is, the challenge for you today is to just wait.
Before you get reunited with each other after being apart for a day, take a deep breath and just say welcome home. Hopefully it saves you from some of the misunderstanding and conflicts that happens when you have different expectations. Yeah, let's go take care of this call back right here.
