That Was So Not My Intention - Truly
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 5:50PM Oops.
I truly did not mean to start a debate with yesterday's post. Rich and I have differing opinions on a subject and we have agreed to disagree. His playing time at church right now is at a manageable level for our family and all is well for now.
My real point in that post was to highlight Reagan's quote: "Well, I know I'm not doing drugs. Are you having an affair?" In her funny, sarcastic, oh-so-16 -year-old way she helped me see that while I thought Rich had overextended himself, the results weren't exactly as disastrous as I was making them out to be.
But thank you for your support. You gave both of us a lot to think about.
Marriage is a constantly evolving relationship. I'm not the same girl Rich married and he is definitely not the boy I fell in love with.
That's a good thing because, frankly, we were young and moronic.
As we've grown up and older and changed interests and learned what's worth fighting about (not much) and how best to support each other we run into these issues that seem like roadblocks. I suppose they may be, for a time, but eventually we either figure out a way around it or take a different route.
Because we're worth it. As a couple we're worth it and as a family we're worth it.
But for the record?
Each and every comment that agreed with my "side" made me giggle a little bit.
Apparently I'm not completely over being young and moronic. :)
P.S. It seems that the comment feature on my blog is being annoying. It is letting some comments through, but not others. My provider, Squarespace, is working on it - or so they say. If you're one of the ones who can't get through, you can use the form in the right sidebar and e-mail it to me and I'll put it up for you!
Reader Comments (7)
Its obvious you guys have a great marriage :) I admire you both and love reading Rich's comments. It makes me jealous. Because my husband doesn't even know how to find my blog.
And Reagan is HIlarious.
:) One never does get over being moronic does one? I know I haven't. . ..
It's too bad you can't alter your comment problem to block comments that agree with Rich and post comments that agree with you...... :-)
I think Rich is behind your comment section not working. He was outnumbered.
On the flip side, I have the opposite problem. My husband has no hobby. He goes to work and then comes home and finds all these jobs to do around the farm. And its really not "work" to him but his hobby. I wish he would find something recreational to do so I won't feel as guilty when I head out riding with my friends....
Young and Moronic behavior never gets old! I doubt you want the knock-down, drag out debate it could bring, but it might be interesting to get a mini post from the kids on how they feel about the work Rich is doing as well as Rich's response. Just so all sides "voice" their thoughts.
Part of being a family is the ability to disagree and still be respectful of the other person and their choices. Sounds like y'all are doing that just fine!
*Sigh*
Do I get the blame for posting the first "shame on you Rich" comment yesterday? Your kids are way to clever, high school should be interesting, but I do wish you luck during the college years and expect you to tell us all about it.
The comment section is not working, or you are blocking the comments that were for Rich? Ha.
I loved the post yesterday, my husband and I are both in the same situation. We are both seperatly involved in a couple different things at church and together we are involved in a few different ministries. We both feel that family should come before all of those and if they start to take from family time, we need to stop doing them. Our friends disagree, they couldn't understand why this summer we weren't at any of the activities for our jr. highers as leaders, they though we should be there. None of them have kids, so we just ignored what they had to tell us.