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‘I Cried Last Night as I Asked My Husband if He Was Tired of Me. Because I’m Tired of Me Some Days.’

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There’s a better way to show your big feelings.

We’ll work on it together . . . tomorrow.

I’m here to help you.

You are safe.

You are never alone in your anger.

You are never alone in your fears.

I’m here. We’re here together.

Now we will clean together.

And we cleaned up the broken pieces. We swept and we vacuumed. It was quiet work. It was careful work. It was thoughtful work.

Sometimes things break. Sometimes we break them. It’s not the breaking that matters, the how or why. What matters is how we choose to respond to the broken-ness. Does it kill us? Does it throw us into a downward spiral of blame and punishment?

OR

Does it help us remember how to love deepest? Does it push us towards compassion and over the hurdle of “rightness” and “wrongness” into LOVENESS?

Yes. LOVENESS.

Go Mama. Go now. Get that baby of yours. Teach that. Show that. Live that. It’s called LOVENESS. Go. Now.

This article originally appeared at Majestic Unicorn and is published here by permission.

Kathleen Fleming
Kathleen Fleminghttp://majesticunicorn.biz
I live in Asheville, North Carolina with my sweet, sweet, tall, tall, good, good man, all of our children, one dog, and one cat. Currently, we're marveling at my growing belly (baby due in July), and enjoying the emerging Spring season. Read more on my site, Majestic Unicorn.

‘I Cried Last Night as I Asked My Husband if He Was Tired of Me. Because I’m Tired of Me Some Days.’

"Raising babies is hard. But I think the hardest is losing yourself. Life is flying by, and you feel lost in the middle of it."

Mom Sets Toddler in Airport With a Sign She Can’t Read—10 Seconds Later, A Man Scoops Her into His Arms

Everyone but the toddler holding the sign knew what was about to happen...

Teacher Buys Coffee for a Stranger Short on Cash, Has No Clue It’s Keith Urban

"I said he did look like Keith Urban, he said he was. I didn't believe him."