And everything that’s worth having

Comes with trials worth withstanding

Goodness gracious! This month has been insane! I can’t believe I have the time to write a blog! Hopefully life will be normal after my brothers wedding on saturday!

So something I’ve noticed recently: how hateful people speak to each other! And I don’t mean random strangers, I mean people who are in relationships. People who love and care about the person they are speaking to! I recently spent a weekend at a friend’s house. She is married to a semi-good guy. He’s your typical enlisted soldier, arrogant, alcoholic, womanizer. But he’s pretty good to her and treats their 3 girls like princesses. He’s nice to me and I genienuly like him. But the way these two speak to each other! I Cringed anytime they had a conversation! Raised voices, terrible name calling, and harsh words…just to decide when and where we should eat. And then 5 minutes later they would be laying together on the couch. I couldn’t believe it!

After I got home, I realized on a much less severe scale, my mom and I were mean to each other. Now neither of us use fowl language or call each other names, but we certainly could speak to each other nicer. Is it just that we get so comfortable with our family? I certainly don’t speak to my friends that way. Are we taking our family for granted? Or there some kind of resentment and relationship wounds that are behind the unloving manner in which we communicate?

Just something that has been on my mind lately.