embracing change

[newmama]

FM, I love how you word things-- instead of just saying "I need to hear compliments sometimes" you have a precise and Flowmom definition: "I need occasional verbal expressions of how I am valued"
I just love your personality! Seriously!!

"To have and to hold, til death do us part, forsake all others" etc. could be better defined as a list like the one you formulated. I realize it is personal for you, but I was reading it going "me too!" especially:

I need to be in a M where the inevitability of conflict is acknowledged, and where both parties are able and willing to work on finding a mutually agreeable way of resolving conflict

I need to feel that my husband and I can share our emotional lives with one another

I wonder if the inevitability of conflict could also mean the inevitability of discontentment at times. Like "this too, shall pass, and we can work through this rut together. It is not permanent."