Being the Designated Phone Person & Other Acts of Words
Like most well-adjusted people our age, my partner hates talking on the phone. Do I love talking on the phone? No, not really. But it doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind it.
Like most well-adjusted people our age, my partner hates talking on the phone. Do I love talking on the phone? No, not really. But it doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind it.
Maybe one day words of self-affirmation won’t feel so weird to me. But until then, I have self-affirming acts as something I can do, a way that I can show myself self-compassion using something other than words.
It can be more jarring sometimes to have to repeatedly say kind things. I get that. Especially if you’re someone who hates to repeat yourself. But Words of Affirmation isn’t unique in this respect. It’s just like the other Love Languages in that it isn’t one and done.
Even as we froze, I stayed warm in the ways that mattered. We protected each other and the animals. You kept that unspoken promise
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