Beast: Hi Beauty
Beauty: Hey beast. What's up?
Beast: Taking care of a two year old has really been a test.
Beauty: Four days...how did we ever do it?
Beast: I guess that's why God gives people children when they're younger and have more stamina.
Beauty: I guess.
Beast: So, the other night as we we're trying to have dinner the phone rang.
Beauty: does the eye roll.
Beast: Right..it was an old friend calling from the west coast and as soon as you realized who was on the phone you gave me THE LOOK and said, "I'm not talking to him..." and then I immediately responded with the hurt anger face (meanwhile I think the two year old was crying) and I responded with "You never want to talk to him!"
Beauty: I don't. I think he's weird.
Beast: (laughing) A lot of our friends are weird. Well, maybe not a lot...but some.
Beauty: Not like him.
Beast: Anyway...it really hurt my feelings and made me realize how important it is to stay current in our communication.
Beauty: What do you mean?
Beast: What I mean is that people just let a lot of stuff slide..the old water under the bridge thing. Eventually however, a crack appears in the proverbial dam and then one day it breaks and the other person wonders where all this pent up stuff is coming from. I was counseling with someone last week and suddenly after ten years of marriage all this stuff is coming to the surface...sort of like a volcanic eruption. There's lava everywhere.
Beauty: Wow
Beast: Wow is right, although I guess it's better late than never. Its when couples stop communicating at all that the wheels tend to fall off.
Beauty: Actually, by then most of the wheels have actually come off.
Beast: Right.
Beauty: So, what do you suggest?
Beast: Start early. In fact it would be ideal to start this conversation before even getting married. Talk about stuff. Learn to communicate your feelings without hurting the other person. Be honest but prayerfully speak the truth in love.
Beauty: I don't know. There's some stuff you really don't like to talk about.
Beast: You mean the white elephant don't you?
Beauty: The big white elephant...your mother.
Beast: This is getting pretty real.
Beauty: I thought that was the point.
Beast: I gotta go. I think the kid is crying.
Beauty: Hey beast. What's up?
Beast: Taking care of a two year old has really been a test.
Beauty: Four days...how did we ever do it?
Beast: I guess that's why God gives people children when they're younger and have more stamina.
Beauty: I guess.
Beast: So, the other night as we we're trying to have dinner the phone rang.
Beauty: does the eye roll.
Beast: Right..it was an old friend calling from the west coast and as soon as you realized who was on the phone you gave me THE LOOK and said, "I'm not talking to him..." and then I immediately responded with the hurt anger face (meanwhile I think the two year old was crying) and I responded with "You never want to talk to him!"
Beauty: I don't. I think he's weird.
Beast: (laughing) A lot of our friends are weird. Well, maybe not a lot...but some.
Beauty: Not like him.
Beast: Anyway...it really hurt my feelings and made me realize how important it is to stay current in our communication.
Beauty: What do you mean?
Beast: What I mean is that people just let a lot of stuff slide..the old water under the bridge thing. Eventually however, a crack appears in the proverbial dam and then one day it breaks and the other person wonders where all this pent up stuff is coming from. I was counseling with someone last week and suddenly after ten years of marriage all this stuff is coming to the surface...sort of like a volcanic eruption. There's lava everywhere.
Beauty: Wow
Beast: Wow is right, although I guess it's better late than never. Its when couples stop communicating at all that the wheels tend to fall off.
Beauty: Actually, by then most of the wheels have actually come off.
Beast: Right.
Beauty: So, what do you suggest?
Beast: Start early. In fact it would be ideal to start this conversation before even getting married. Talk about stuff. Learn to communicate your feelings without hurting the other person. Be honest but prayerfully speak the truth in love.
Beauty: I don't know. There's some stuff you really don't like to talk about.
Beast: You mean the white elephant don't you?
Beauty: The big white elephant...your mother.
Beast: This is getting pretty real.
Beauty: I thought that was the point.
Beast: I gotta go. I think the kid is crying.
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