Marriage: Year One
We are on our 16th month of marriage! And my...how it FLIES, but how we have GROWN. Before time escapes me completely, I want to document some of the lessons learned in our first year of marriage. So I can look back in the future and giggle, laugh, call us "newbies", and reminisce about how beautiful the journey is. Year One lessons, here we go. I've learned in this year that how I define myself matters . Prior to being one with another human, I prided myself in being independent. Self-sufficient. Confident. I didn't need anyone... Yet after getting married, I shocked myself with how quickly I became accustomed to depending on someone. I definitely became a more dependent person, which isn't a negative thing at all, but I also think I took it a little too far. I subconsciously gave my fragile self-esteem over to my husband to hold in his hands. I was often offended and hurt by things he said. I depended on another human to lift me up, hold me up, and be a con...