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25 Years

Today we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, and I find myself a bit gobsmacked. Just a few years ago, we had grown apart to a point …

The walls we build to help ourselves feel safe may be the very things that deny us access to what we most want. In this post, I talk about how the walls I'd built to provide me some emotional safety affected my husband's sense of emotional safety with me. Other posts in the series share about why why we build walls, why we need to forgive, and how to tear down that wall.

The Other Side of the Wall

The walls we build to help ourselves feel safe may be the very things that deny us access to what we most want. In this post, I talk about how the walls I’d built to provide me some emotional safety affected my husband’s sense of emotional safety with me. Other posts in the series share about why why we build walls, why we need to forgive, and how to tear down that wall.

Do you feel emotionally safe with your husband? Have you built a wall right in the middle of the marriage bed in order to protect your heart? Me, too. In this post I share about why I built that wall. Other posts in the series will look at how protective walls can become a prison, how to tear down the wall enough to begin to develop emotional safety, and how the wall can affect your husband's sense of emotional safety with you.

The Wall:  Keeping Myself Emotionally Safe

Do you feel emotionally safe with your husband? Have you built a wall right in the middle of the marriage bed in order to protect your heart? Me, too. In this post I share about why I built that wall. Other posts in the series will look at how protective walls can become a prison, how to tear down the wall enough to begin to develop emotional safety, and how the wall can affect your husband’s sense of emotional safety with you.