Shallow, I know but ....
Thankyou so much for that. I was hanging out some washing post-sending that post and thinking, well, I really am just a conniving, greedy and materialistic person after all. But, I did also while these thought of self hatred were running through my head remember reading that very book - 5 languages of love - and how a light had gone on for me. I read some passages out of it at the time to my husband and 'laughed' along with him at how 'silly' some of sounded but I did also try to get through to him that 99% of it made so much sense to me. I left it by his side of the bed and asked him to read it, but he wasn't keen. I would say that my husband sounds exactly the same as yours. He is a very good, practical and kind man who also doesn't want fuss on his birthday as in presents, but you know how it is, I still do it.
Thank you again for your post. I can say also that it is a standing joke in our family about the first christmas when he bought me a dust buster!! My mother thought he was having a laugh. It hung in the laundry for years while flies formed in funeral heaps but I never, ever, used it! It has been really lifting reading your post. I'm smiling.
Thankyou so much for that. I was hanging out some washing post-sending that post and thinking, well, I really am just a conniving, greedy and materialistic person after all. But, I did also while these thought of self hatred were running through my head remember reading that very book - 5 languages of love - and how a light had gone on for me. I read some passages out of it at the time to my husband and 'laughed' along with him at how 'silly' some of sounded but I did also try to get through to him that 99% of it made so much sense to me. I left it by his side of the bed and asked him to read it, but he wasn't keen. I would say that my husband sounds exactly the same as yours. He is a very good, practical and kind man who also doesn't want fuss on his birthday as in presents, but you know how it is, I still do it.
Thank you again for your post. I can say also that it is a standing joke in our family about the first christmas when he bought me a dust buster!! My mother thought he was having a laugh. It hung in the laundry for years while flies formed in funeral heaps but I never, ever, used it! It has been really lifting reading your post. I'm smiling.
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