Relationships are the foundations of life. Everyone has a relationship with some person and that relationship can be positive or negative. I think that relationships are the building block for a person's life and how you foster those relationships will determine what type of life you will live. The far most, most important relationship that I have is my relationship with God. I put God before all the relationships that I have, yes all. I know that God is my all and all and without him I can do nothing. My God tells me that he is a jealous God and that he will have nothing come before him. The Second most important relationship is that of my husband and children.
My husband and I are first of all friends, I believe in order to have the relationship that I desire with my husband we have to be friends as well as husband and wife. We have an open communication which is important to me. We are able to talk and communicate, even when we disagree we are able to talk and work it out. The relationship that I now have with my husband is all that I have ever wanted out of a relationship. We have grown closer in the past 4 years than ever before out of a 17 year relationship.
The relationship that I have with my family is also important to me. I am a baby of 5 kids and I love my family. I am very close to my family and we were raised to put family first and that is what I have done.
My most ppositive relationships is with my close circle. My Husband, Travis Carridine, My Mom and Dad , Mary and Melvin Holloman, Mys Sister, Bernice Martin, and Faye Mack, and my two best friends, Shikira Johnson and Vanessa Bateman. I love each and everyone of them dearly and I depend on those relationships to get me through life. One thing I do know is that in order for these relationships to last there has to be a give take relationship because if there is always a take relationship then, that will wear the relationship out, vice versa for a relationship where one half is always the one giving.
The relationships that I have in my life gives me the passion and the drive for myself as a professional. I always strive to have positive relationships with my students and their families. It is important for me as teacher to love and treat my students just as I would my own children.
Melanie,
ReplyDeleteIt feels sooo good to hear of your relationship with your husband. So many of my friends or just people I know that have gotten married have something negative to say about it and say "marriage is over rated". As for me, I love my boyfriend/man dearly and I desire a marriage that is based on trust, honesty,and like you I agree that you MUST be friends first!!!
Thank you for giving me hope and sharing your relationship with me/the class; marriage is not something you pick up today and put down 72days later lol.
Nicky
I absolutely love that you put God as you first relationship! I also know whom my help comes from and believe that my relationship with the Lord is what gets me through. You and your husband seem like you have a close bond and are truly best friends. This is so important for not only you and your husband but for your children. It is so good for them to see their parents in love and willing to work through anything! Great post!
ReplyDeleteYour relationship reflection is beautiful! I too have the love of God and then my family. You are so right when you need the help of God to accomplish anything. He is so POWERFUL and so is the POWER of prayer. You have a wonderful reflection on your husband and children. My husband and I both have a relationship similar to yours. My husband is my one and only and I am his everthang. We both had these sayings tatooed on our arms and I have Psalm 119:105 on my other arm. I need God's reinformcement to live my life.
ReplyDeleteChristine
Dear Melanie,
ReplyDeleteI love the photo of your family. I agree with you that relationships are the building block for a person's life, and how you foster those relationships will determine the life you will live. I am an optimistic person, so I need positive people in my life. I don’t like being around negative people, and when I come in contact with a person like that, I remove myself from the situation. I try to surround myself with positive thinking people because being unhappy and negative is not the life I want to live.