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What type are you?




On a previous post i talked about yelling. That is still going well. I am yelling less. And i am also less stressed.

I ran across this quote and it got me to thinking about who i want the girls to be when they are older. What kind of example I am setting for them...etc.
I also thought long and hard about the example their dad sets for how a man should treat a lady. I think we are good in that department. The girls have told me several times that they admire our relationship. We both have someone we can be ourselves with and laugh and learn together. We share the same interest and have different ones as well and that gives us something to talk about at the end of the day. The girls will hopefully have long lasting relationships in life and a happy marriage. 

I think about the kind of woman Jaxon might end up with. Will she be similar to his mom or the complete opposite. 


Your kids are watching and listening even if you don't think they are. They might not always be in the room when you are talking with your spouse, but they are watching and listening. They can sense tension and stress and although they need to see those things too (i mean lets face it...sometimes our spouses can get on our nerves and vise versa) they need to see that ya'll don't have to agree on everything. But they also need to see that ya'll need alone time as parents. A night out. A night cuddling on the couch watching a movie. Cooking dinner together. Playing together and *GASP* they need to see ya'll kiss every now and again. In a world where you hear more bad than good thanks to social media it seems we always hear about the break-ups and divorces and cheaters than we do the long marriages, The happy couples. The ones celebrating a 60 year wedding anniversary. It still exist and our kids need to see that. We need to show them they can have those things too.



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