Welcome to let it be easy with Susie Moore.

I'd like to share something simple with you today that is obvious but easily overlooked.

And it's something I think that we can understand or appreciate when things get serious or maybe later in our lives.

We can have some regrets about this.

So let's talk about it today, shall we? My question for you is this. Do the people you

most love get the worst of you? Oh My heart can even sink at this thought because I know it's been true in my

reality in the past. Like I'd show up at work and be choppy and happy and great with my co-workers and great with my clients and

then come home and be snappy with my husband.

They'd get my sparkly side, shiny side and I was so tired or worn out or even frustrated maybe at a work challenge

that when I got home I was just grunting one word answers, right, reaching for the wine.

Now I mean if I even think about that, you know, I last had a job in a traditional sense ten years ago, and those clients and coworkers,

some are still in my life, but they're not my husband.

Right? My husband is my priority, he's my life partner, we go through life together.

He doesn't deserve the worst of me. Are you giving away your emotional energy to the wrong people?

Not because they're bad people or because people don't deserve kindness. But are you giving away sometimes

maybe the best parts of you or those reserves that you have for people who don't deserve it?

And like I said, they don't not deserve it because they're bad,

they just aren't as deserving as the people closest to you. I was listening to a friend of mine speak on a podcast recently and he said look

it's so funny to get your priorities wrong right to think that work is first so

this is first so that's first and then your family are like this distant seventh because they're permanent right they're not going to leave you

It can feel like opportunities come and go oh got to catch them. Oh, they're gonna drift away.. Oh, and family, hey, they're stuck with me, so they'll just take whatever I've got left. They'll get the crumbs of the table. Everyone else gets my best.

He really flipped it. He said, look, my family are my number one priority. When I even

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