So often relationship problems seem to come down to the question, Who’s the jerk here?
I’m not saying relationships should come down to that. But often they do. People assemble evidence about how their partner is being a jerk. They gather supporters to back up their point of view. And they create plans and take action to put a stop to this jerky behavior, once and for all.
While it’s certainly true that other people sometimes do things that should not be tolerated, it’s dangerous to jump to conclusions too quickly about who the jerk is in a situation.
I’d like to give you a real example from my life, in a little Holiday Story I call,
Who’s the Jerk Here? A Holiday Story by Dmitri Bilgere
Jerky, Jerky Fawn
My wife, Fawn, had been being very unreliable recently (even by her own admission). I’m not going to go into the embarrassing details, but she had been going through a time of frequently saying she was going to do things — sometimes important things — and either not doing them, or putting them off for so long I had to do them for her. [Read more…]
The body, like a mother, is pregnant with the spirit child.
