Today and this past year, I am most grateful for one thing. Most importantly, I am very grateful for my husband and his patience. I love his nature. It is so soft to my hard and sometimes maniac personality.
So, I suppose a little background about me would put his "amazingness" into perspective. I come from a family of the great debaters. We love to have heated “discussions” about everything. To an innocent bystander, with an untrained eye, these “discussions” might seem like shouting matches. But really, these “discussions” are many strong willed opinionated people communicating. This was my environment growing up. These “discussions” would be launched anytime two of us were in one room together. It is how I learned to communicate with other individuals. So, it is my nature to automatically raise my pitch a couple octaves, put my head down and win this “discussion”. But this runs so, so, sooo counter to my husband’s way of “discussions”. Just picture a marshmallow hitting a boulder. He doesn’t ever raise his voice and he agrees with everything you say. Now to a debater, this is the most frustrating defense in a “discussion”. The opponent must come back with the next volley in the discussion. But my husband, just takes the ball, says okay and walks away.
So, yesterday, we had one of those “discussions” and I am charged up, ready and begin my tirade, oops I mean ”discussion”. After what seems like 20 minutes of me laying out my points very poignantly and succinctly, I open my eyes, come down out of my frenzy, ready for the rebuttal, but, there is no rebuttal or counter “discussion” point, just a bewildered, kind set of eyes looking at me like I have 3 heads. He just looked at me with pure understanding that he knows I am off my rocker and I needed to vent at that moment. It takes a special man to recognize crazy and still love it.
So, this day, year, and moment, I am most grateful for my husband and his all-knowing, non-judging, understanding and beautiful nature!
Namaste
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