Regardless of my husband's upbringing in a medically focused environment, he has always supported my holistic approach to all aspects of our families health care. I don't look down my nose or judge him when he takes something for a headache, and he trusts me that giving birth to our children outside of the hospital in our house is safe.
In chapter 2 of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (pg 28), it talks about arguments that never get resolved. My husband and I always seem to gravitate back to the same argument, the behavior of my oldest son from my first marriage. It is the only argument that we ever seem to have. As we have approached resolving it many different ways, aspects of the argument have been downgraded as we try to compromise and accommodate the other persons feelings. Our ultimate caring for the well-being of my son is at the top, but because of our different upbringings my husband and I clash on how to parent. Right before I married my husband, our stake president gave us the advice to always pick your spouse. The best thing for our children is to see that our marriage is the top priority. Hopefully a domino effect will occur and each of our children will give the same priority to their own marriages.
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