Sharing Challenges

Journal: Nov. 21 2012

Such simple things I never knew.  How to greet my sweetheart at 1:30 in the morning.  She said she likes me to sing to her. So I sing, “Hello young lover whoever you are. I hope your troubles are few.” And we dance a little.

And then I stop,

Tired. Not sure I have the energy to interact more.

There’s such a struggle in me between what I think I should do and what I want to do.

I think I should at least listen to BOTH parts.

Which brings me to my main point: learning to negotiate.

I like to pray together before I go to sleep.

But she, coming in from nursing, needs to unwind, write her journal, check e-mail.

Hmm.

It is so nice to share this mini-challenge with her rather than figure it out myself.  I’m slowly becoming more human.

She says, I need at least 20 minutes to unwind, write my journal.

I say, “I’ll try to stay up 20 minutes and then we’ll pray and you may need to do more unwinding.”