Love believes the best. For today’s dare (yesterday’s actually…didn’t get to post yesterday though) get two pieces of paper. On the first one write some positive things about your spouse. On the second one write some negative things about your spouse. Take both pieces of paper and hide them in a secret place to be used another day, there are purposes for each of them. At some point in the remainder of the day, pick a positive attribute of your spouse from the list and thank them for having this characteristic.
Day 6 happenings: Well, I felt like I did a good job of reacting to things in a loving way throughout the day, until we got to night time. I went to bed around 10:30, but Robert didn’t go to bed until probably 1:00. He always checks on Jesse before going to bed, and this night when he checked on him, Jesse’s blanket that he sleeps with was in a big ball and he was laying on top of it. So being the good Dad that he is, he tried to move the blanket to put it on top of Jesse, but ended up waking him up. Instead of reacting with love and soothing Jesse back to sleep, I reacted in frustration from being woken up from sleeping to have to take care of a crying baby. Jesse might have woken up anyways, but it was easy to blame Robert for that happening. It was a long evening after that event, but I managed to apologize to Robert in the morning for me being rude to him and having a bad attitude about it all.
