We have spoken often of the benefits of learning to speak to your spouse’s heart. But what happens if you don’t? What happens when you give your to-do list priority over relationship with your spouse? Or you focus on Facebook or other hobbies to the exclusion of your spouse? Or other people sap all your time and energy?
Our dear friend has given us permission to print her eloquent treatment of the subject. She does a good job of describing what it means to really know and understand your spouse. Our prayer is that you will hear your spouse’s desire for relationship and heed what it feels like to be ignored.
I Wanted You to Know Me
Osmosis does not make a marriage
I wanted us to cleave
My disappointment envelops
Too often, I want to leave.Do you know my quirks;
Apprehension, fears?
Do you know
How often I shed tears?Do you know me inside out,
Or outside in?
Do you know how often
I fantasize of sin?To dream of one who wants me,
To know me to the core,
One who searches me
And still says, “more.”Do you know my wishes,
My, “someday I would like,”?
I want to dance in a purple dress
In the soft moonlight.I am a romantic
Did you know?
Soft words, soft touches
Keep my flame aglow.I want to read a million books
And strike the ivory keys
I want to paint pictures
And mediate mysteries.I want to chat, throw out ideas
Contemplate anew
But you get angry
When thoughts don’t fit your view.I’m encased in a box
The funeral already happened.
I didn’t know death had knocked.Death. The death of a marriage.
The hope of soul mates gone.
You didn’t want to know me.
I’ve been missing far too long.
