5-Minute Valentine's Day Message: Say This To Your Spouse
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
5-Minute Valentine's Day Message: Say This To Your Spouse
Do you think your wife is too soft and coddles your child? Do you think your husband is too rigid and reactive? These are common narratives that will derail your family. So Kirk wrote a new, more honest message you can tell your spouse that will get you on the same page, even if you haven't liked each other for a while now.
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| 0:00.0 | Moms and dad, you're also busy running your kids everywhere, working, completing a thousand to one tasks, that you don't always have the energy for extra self-care activities. |
| 0:11.2 | So why not collapse into bed as soon as you can a few nights a week, wrapped in cozy, earth, luxurious softness? |
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| 1:04.0 | So if you have been married for any length of time, you have likely built up a narrative in your |
| 1:09.5 | head about your spouse. |
| 1:14.3 | Here are the two most common ones we experience. |
| 1:19.2 | Husbands often say, well, our child wouldn't misbehave so much if my wife wasn't so soft and lenient and let them get away with things. |
| 1:24.4 | She just coddles our child. |
| 1:26.6 | Wives often say, our child reacts and has meltdowns |
| 1:30.5 | because my husband reacts angrily, can't control his emotions, and is too harsh. Now, there's likely |
| 1:36.9 | truth in each of those statements, but it's not the whole truth. And these kind of narratives |
| 1:42.2 | serve to place blame on the other spouse and make |
| 1:46.7 | me feel justified in my own actions. But they will ultimately lead to the disintegration of |
| 1:53.6 | your family and your marriage and you don't want that. So for Valentine's Day, I have actually |
| 1:58.7 | written a Valentine's Day message for each of you and challenge you to say and write some version of this to your spouse instead. |
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