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Chapter 1: How can I view my husband more positively?
The greatest gift you can give him right now is honesty.
Yeah.
Sometimes when we sit down with our spouses and we make these plans, they come with these, but we have to live here. And you have this degree, so we have to do this. And I think we're in a season in the world that's changing so, so, so fast. The world we live in right now will be so different five years from now. And in many ways, that terrifies me because I don't have a roadmap for it.
I don't like living without a roadmap. but y'all have to sit down and take your arm and wipe off everything. You have family land, so what? You have a degree in whatever, so what? You don't know how to do a certain thing or certain things right now, but you can learn them.
Shoot, I don't mind telling you, I just asked Andrew, who's currently running the video equipment right now, if this summer he can give me and my son welding lessons. because they left the welding class. I just asked him the other day to create a class for me and my son and to give me a list of things I need to buy so I can be a welder. And I'm old. I'm an old man.
I'm not an old man, but I'm getting there. So this idea that you can't learn, if you get a master's degree in theology and wrestle with those abstract ideas, then for sure you can learn how to do some of these other things, but you got to want to do it. And I want you to have a picture. I want my boys, when they walk across the graduation stage at the age of 18, to know how to do these things.
It's actually a thing I went and did. You and your husband need to go through John Tyson's book, The Intentional Father. It is a faith-based book. So if you're not a faith-based person, I think the book is still extraordinary. But if you are people of faith, it's the best fathering book I've read.
But it gives a map for your kids got to learn how to do a whole bunch of stuff, especially in the upcoming world they got. They got to learn how to raise chickens and they got to learn how to dodge a punch and they got to learn how to code or whatever. Deal with AI. They got to do all of that stuff. It's a new world, new planet. But instead of just every day being like, well, they can't do this.
They're never going to be able to do that. Let's go all the way out to the end, to the finish line and reverse engineer it. When they're 18, they walk across the stage. I want them to know how to do these things. Husband, I want you to know how to do some of these things. It would make me as your wife feel safer if you knew how to do some of these things. And
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Chapter 2: What should I do if my partner lacks follow-through?
Okay, I want to dig in right there. Why? I mean... Do you have this Hollywood version of your house that if we have to say it, it makes it less...
No, I mean, I feel like I have pretty realistic expectations for the household. So just like recent history, our son passed away two years ago. Okay. And it was like right after we were so close and it was just like the shock of everything. We kind of bonded more than we had been before. And then the following year,
he kind of lost it because I went to, you know, the support groups in therapy and our older kids are in therapy and we were all getting help and he just didn't. And he was like, well, you're my wife. Like you can help me. And I was like, I'm drowning. I can't help. I can't help anyone. And, um, so he got really mean for a really long time.
And what does really mean me?
I, Like just yelling. He never was like physical, but just like the littlest things would just like set him off. And so I feel like I still have like that flinch reflex.
Okay. That's super fair.
Yeah.
Super fair. So don't walk around saying, well, I'm just not good at talking.
You have a husband that went through a gnarly depression. He's probably still there.
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