Prompt:

Write about a time when love meant stepping out of your comfort zone, making a hard choice, or offering up a sacrifice.

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My 500 Words Day 4

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Let Love Rule In Your Hearts

I fell in love with you because you loved me when I couldn’t love myself. ~ unknown

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Love is tough at times. It isn’t always butterflies in the stomach and star filled eyes. At times you need to do some seemingly unloving things out of love. What do I mean?
As a parent you need to say no to certain things. Your children don’t understand and may get angry at you but you know it’s for their good (and safety) so you stand by what you say.
In relationships you may need to leave for a time in order to allow it to grow.

Love hurts.

Yes that is true but it is also the best feeling outside of s_x that I know of. Do you agree?
Personally I think I’ve hidden behind my illness too much.

Right now I’m dealing with the consequences of that. I’m not saying my illness isn’t valid and that I need to ignore my own needs, I just need to understand how it affects others around me. (husband and children)

Love is being there and willing to sacrifice.

My husband stood by me when I suffered deep depression during the first six months of our child’s life. He provided care for our son as well as me. He took on the role of house cleaner, child care provider, cook, and many other roles PLUS held down his full-time job.

Love is willing to change for the benefit of both.

Recently I became aware of a flaw in the way I’ve been living or shall I say not living.
For years I’ve lived with “I only need to make it until I die” attitude. I take my medication, see my doctors, and wake up only because my husband and children ask me to. This is my way of saying I love them.
BUT…
They did not take it as love. If fact they lived in fear.

When will she leave (in the past I’d run away for days without notice-they not knowing whether I was alive or dead) or will she make it through this low period without harming herself?
Love is telling me that I am being selfish in my disease by not fighting to LIVE my life with them. Existing isn’t enough.
I exist. I wait for death instead of chasing it which I thought was being kind to my family.
What torture it must have been for them?
Love is happiness, good feelings, butterflies in your stomach, stars in your eyes, believing all will be fine but it is also sacrifice, hard choices, and stepping out of your comfort zone.
Right now love is me facing my fears and fighting for my family (my husband’s heart).

• Is it uncomfortable? YES
• Is it hard? YES
• Is it a sacrifice? YES

Will we make it through this?

Maybe, maybe not but I will give all of me just as my husband and boys have given all of themselves for me.

Marriage – Family – Relationship are W.O.R.K.

Your Thoughts On: 

How have you had to compromise, sacrifice, or step out of your comfort zone in your relationships in order for them to grow? Was it an easy or difficult process? Was the other person willing?

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