NuevaVida -> RE: He wants me to change....? (3/5/2012 10:22:24 PM)
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~ Fast Reply ~ What a crazy-assed little thread. The OP answered her own (non) question by saying she needs to talk to him. I hope she did that, and I hoped it worked out well for her. For me, some of the requests would have strong reactions and some would not: * Lose weight. I'm already doing that, on my own. I've worked very hard to get a handle on my own eating disorder. Any time the Mister has tinkered with my diet, I've gained weight, which is not his purpose. The thing is, with a disorder like that, you compensate one area for another. It's taken a LOT Of work to self-manage. A game like Kana proposed would fuck me up. I simply needed to learn how to manage my food intake while still enjoying food, and to find an exercise I loved, so I could make it a priority to do. The Mister has been wonderfully supportive and encouraging. And while he'll say he wants such-n-such for dinner, I can always propose a healthy way of preparing it, and he's pretty much always agreed. * Tattoo. What's not a big deal to one person can be a huge deal to another. That's the beauty of us all being separate individuals. Just so happens the Mister hates tattoos so I won't be sporting any new ones. But to address the "hard limit" and a changed mind - - shit happens. People change their minds. The Mister has changed his mind about something he agreed to in the beginning. And you know what? I hate it. But he's putting in time, patience, energy, love and a lot of effort, to help me get to where he wants me to go. He's not simply asking me every so often, "So can we do this yet? Huh? Can we? Can we?" That would annoy the crap out of me. It's like Jeff said - investing in a relationship. The rewards come back ten-fold. * Promotion. It's been said already - nobody here knows what the promotion entails. I'd turn down a promotion if it meant using up more of my personal time. Money ain't everything to me. But we're all in different relationships, or have a history of different relationships, so we'll all come at this from various angles. Those who theorize rather than recite personal experiences don't have a lot of credence in my world, but hey it's an open forum so have at it. What I know is this - the Mister and I talk about everything. In our relationship, the health of the relationship comes first. Otherwise, what's the point? He's the pilot, I'm the co-pilot. I do push back on some things, and I totally comply on others. I'm sure it annoys him when I push back, but that just means he take a different approach - - kinda like what leaders do. [;)] Anyway, I hope the OP has worked things out.
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