What are you bringing to the relationship-table? Love? Yeah, fine, good start. What else?
It always seemed that love was the alpha and omega of everything. I’m sure it starts with love (or lust in some cases), but it needs to move on from there – grow into something else.
To be in a successful relationship (being wife, husband, mother, child, father, whatever) I feel that love alone is not enough to ensure the continuation of a growing commitment.
I’m talking about caring, compassion, empathy, concern, spoiling, patience, understanding, commitment, faithfulness, trust . . . (you are allowed to add yours here.)
Love alone is not the magical word that will carry the heavy load of “being together”. The funny thing is that when you bring/give all the other necessities as mentioned above, it makes Love stronger. It makes it more. It makes it special.
This is then it for my Thankful Thursday. I am extremely grateful for my husband and the relationship we have. He makes me want to bring more to lay at his feet. He makes me want to be a better person. I want to bring more for/to him.
(And as all of us have this “feeding”-need (as in: but I did this and that and what did you do?) and wants our relationship-bunnies to be fed as well, I know that he will do his best to bring more to me and “feed” me).
Krista
Dit is so die waarheid, ek het al baie verhoudings gesien verbrokkel en selfs lelik word waar die paartjie rerig erig baie lief vir mekaar was, maar die liefde het nooit uitgeloop of ontwikkel in enigiets meer nie. Liefde is soos ‘n plantjie wat gevoed moet word, en al hierdie goeters wat jy noem is sy water en kos en doen mens dit nie, wel, dan vlieg ‘liefde’ met ‘n wille vaart by die deur uit!!
aaaahhhh – I dunno…really I don’t. Right now, that is. I’m prepared to give so much – lay it at his feet so to speak, but it ain’t easy loving a ‘hardened bachelor’ (hahaha making it sound like it’s a crime – which it’s not – he loves me more than any former legally married husband of mine ever has) hmmmm so maybe writing is therapeutic afterall, coz all of a sudden I feel a little bit better. or do I?
Or maybe I WILL celebrate Thankful Thursday and start counting my blessings more
Yes!!! He makes me want to be a better person. He complete me!!! My big cuddly Teddybear!!
Wat ‘n mooi inskrywing Krista!!! (My Teddie sal jou self bedank vir hierdie inskrywing, want ek gaan nou dadelik goedjies by sy voete neerlê)