When we first take our steps in our life we struggle to get the right footing in front of us as to not fall and get a bump, Sometimes its just like in our adult lives We struggle with the daily challenges of our lives and hope that bump doesn't hit us hard. Those bumps, those mild stones in our lives are what makes us who are today. Nothing happens for no reason its simple sometimes we cant see the reason at that moment.
6yrs ago my husband and I moved our family to small town out here in the eastern part of Washington. We found a job at the same place and decided together it would make a good life for us. Buying this business would help us later on in our path of life. So we pushed worked hard and gave everything to it, lots of hours, lots of lost moments, and one day it hit me I didn't want it any more. It was taking valuable time from my family my life my person, so i slowly started asking my husband to spend more time at home and less time at work. Its hard when we grow we change just the like the season sometimes its good and sometimes those awful traits we hate are hard to shake free of. I loved him so much that i let him go, to this job this goal we had set long ago in the past. I realized i wanted more, i want to get a career where my life does not revolve around my work, my children don't suffer and my marriage is top priority in life. After awhile asking him to make his days of his days off he just seemed to throw himself more into work. I know it was not intentional for him to neglect us but, in the end my non voice is what helped it happen. I stopped talking, i stopped being the nagging wife i thought and feared i had become. I slowly started to fade into a deep depression, Sadness is all i felt and alone. I felt i had become a single parent. Over time my love for him slowly started falling away. I had never thought so much that what i wanted as younger person would change as i grew but, it has and i am thankful i took the advice a good friend and spoke my mind!
I had to go out of town for a family wedding it was than it hit me, I didn't want to return to my home, my husband i wanted to stay away and not face the feeling in my gut. This feeling of lost love and not knowing who he was, who we were any more. I knew the us from the beginning not the us at the present time any more. He use to be my person, my best friend my lover and my soul mate and i feared so much that it had gone away! I thought for sure i had lost him to this job, this small town that in my heart i knew was not going anywhere.
So we talked he listened i spoke words that hurt him but, where simple and the blunt truth. I was so sad as i watch my husband my Jon crying because i had to tell him that i was falling out of love with. This job had taken him away from me and i let it! He in past had made promises to change to make his time at home more and less at work those old promises never got met. So i was fear full to believe that he would do it this time when he said it. I am glad i listened and spoke to him because now he has changed, the job is second and we come first. I have slowly started to rekindle that love for him everyday my bond my love for him grows stronger and we become the people we were meant to be. I know and have always known he is the love of my life and now we are back on track with who are.
After much talking we both agreed the store is taking us no where fast and we need more for our family. Good jobs, more opportunities for our kids and more time to make for each other. I still fear a bit that what i have done could back fire and he will resent me for asking him to see what i saw about our past goal the store but, i have faith that he really wants it not just for my happiness but, his too! I have to give faith in something that is scary because i felt my heart tear at the seems and i don't want it to again. I know though in my heart he wants it too and i am confident that we will pull out of all this together. Together i know we can make it through any hurtle if we just help each other and listen. Listening is the key to any marriage, any relationship If its not there than your bound to end up with heart ache and failure!
Thank you Jon for listening for realizing what we had and deciding we worth more than anything this world could offer us! I love you with all of my heart and i am yours for always!