Challenges In Relationships

Creating a healthy relationship with yourself and others leads to a fulfilling life. These prompts are an invitation to step inside yourself. Take a deep breath. Shuffle the deck. Pull a card. Write your heart out. Rupi Kaur

I know it's not Valentines Day yet.

however, I just bet

I can find a way to fit this in here

Dating, and making a list is near

Relationships with hubby and family

aren't always easy, you will see.

Rupi Kaur's Relationships Writing Prompts - A time when my family misunderstood me was ________________________.

My sister had been living far away from family for many years and it was during a time when I got into recovery. At that time I made amends to my family for being a sh-t. It included my sister, but when she moved back she hit me with some particulars of my being a sh-t.

It was going well until she started to talk about when we were young children and how I made her wash dishes when it was my turn. I couldn't help but laugh and when I did, all hell broke loose. My family packed up everyone into the car and left me sitting there by myself.

That would have been sad, except it wasn't my house. It was my mother's house and she, my sister, and a few siblings left me. That was funny too and I deserved it. My sister was always the scapegoat in the family and now it was me. I thought that was only fair.

So, I laughed some more. Then I went home, vowing to make amends yet again. The next time wasn't the last time but that was okay as it never again included anything about making her do my dishes.

Rupi Kaur's Relationships Writing Prompts - Make a list of date ideas that you want to experience with your partner.

1) We could go for several shorter trips on our motorcycles that we haven't been on before. Hubby will point out places he would like to check out on bikes. Let's write a list and then do them this year.

2) A dinner theatre experience sounds good to me. Will it to him? Will he do it for me if I get the tickets? Maybe! If I do an old country music experience for him, he may do something for me.

3) Camp at a few more places we have talked about but haven't done yet.

4) Take a couples dance class.

5) Go on a picnic somewhere fun or at home.

6) Movie and dinner with him picking both things one time and me picking both things the next time.

This is enough as it will take us a year or more to do each of these ideas.

Rupi Kaur's Relationships Writing Prompts - Explain any challenges you've experienced in relationships due to your own or your partner's cultural or religious beliefs.

When I met my husband-to-be, I thought it was great that we laughed well together. We had a very similar humor. As time went by, I learned he was raised on a reservation and most of his friends were Native American. Very cool, I thought.

Well, he does have the humor thing. He appears to have missed much of the other parts of being Native American. It was not unexpected as he does miss a bunch of things going on right around him.

It became clear to me many times. He thinks I say something in a page that could have been said in a couple of sentences. He missed that our people are storytellers. He may have caught the part of watching and listening a lot before talking.

Then I was taught that because young children and old people are closer to the creator, they see and hear things that others may not. I encouraged him to do something his 90-something aunt wanted him to do for her. He told me, "Don't do that again." I told him it is part of my culture.

Then I said that we needed to tell the social worker and her daughter that she may need to be evaluated for another level of care as she was living on her own in a senior high rise.

He looks at me strangely when I tell him things I was taught and believe. That is okay as I'm true that goes for most non-Natives. My co-worker said and I believe that "Science is catching up with ceremony".