Today is a quiet milestone in my own home. My husband and I are celebrating our 22nd wedding anniversary.
Twenty-two years of navigating the rocks, moving the furniture, and learning that love isn’t just a feeling. It’s a series of daily choices. For us, it has always been about accepting the other unconditionally, not trying to change one another. Not forgetting that sometimes you need to compromise.
In the ‘Hello Neighbor’ series, we look for the human pieces of the puzzle. Love is perhaps the most complex piece of all. It requires us to stay in the room when it’s difficult and to keep asking questions instead of making assumptions.
Whether it’s a marriage, a deep friendship, or a long-term partnership, a healthy relationship isn’t the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a neighborly spirit even in the disagreements.
Of course, when harm is done on purpose, we always have the choice to disConnect.
This Week’s Question:
To celebrate twenty-two years of staying in the room, I want to open the floor to your lived experience.
What is your best tip for a healthy relationship?
Whether you’ve been together for two months or fifty years, or you’ve learned your best lessons through the end of a Connection, I would love to read your perspectives.
Looking forward to Connect!
Patty
2 Responses
Happy anniversary Patty and J ❤️🫶 🥳🍾🎉 What a lovely picture of the two of you: young and happy – and you still are! In three days we celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary. It has been a bumpy road, but we’re in quiet waters now. Older and wiser. I think knowing and then respecting boundaries is important. First of all and most important: your own!
XX
Thanks a ton, dear Anuk. And yes, that is for sure valid advice!