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Me Time or "We" Time?
I relax by curling up with a good book. My husband thinks I'm shutting him out.
Susan Wilbanks | posted 9/30/2008
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Entering marriage, I assumed Dylan and I would do the same. If I'd paid more attention to his family, I would've known better. When they gather, they function as a group. Everyone shares the same conversation around the table. If the TV is on, everyone watches. To them, it's abnormal to be in the same room but not acknowledge one another. Dylan wasn't trying to keep me from being a bookworm—he just expected me to treat our time together as relationship time, not solitude time.
We're still working on the perfect balance of privacy and companionship, and I expect it to be an ongoing process for years to come. But I knew we'd learned something about marriage when I was the one to suggest date activities, and he was the one to suggest I go read for a few hours!
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