With the advent of the New Year around the corner, I have been spending a fair amount of time reflecting on not only the last year, but on my life in general.
I love your story. This is just another way to cope with adversity. You have to get glad in the same pants you got mad in, so you might as well skip the mad part.
One time I was tormenting my husband about something. I kept on teasing, harping on something and calling him a baby. About the third time I called him a baby, he straight faced said, "If you call me a baby one more time, I'm going to spit my pacifier at you".
Now it is a family joke. I went out and bought a toy pacifier and hung it on the mirror in his truck. I didn't call him a baby anymore.
So now we roll up our sleeves, embrace each other's humanity. We don't have to 'look at what we did'. We just have to fix it.
I love your story. This is just another way to cope with adversity. You have to get glad in the same pants you got mad in, so you might as well skip the mad part.
One time I was tormenting my husband about something. I kept on teasing, harping on something and calling him a baby. About the third time I called him a baby, he straight faced said, "If you call me a baby one more time, I'm going to spit my pacifier at you".
Now it is a family joke. I went out and bought a toy pacifier and hung it on the mirror in his truck. I didn't call him a baby anymore.
So now we roll up our sleeves, embrace each other's humanity. We don't have to 'look at what we did'. We just have to fix it.