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NEW YEAR RITUAL
Each January my husband Jon and I have a beginning of the year
ritual. We give other the right to pick one responsibility we would
like the other to give up. We don’t always get to give it up, but it
forms the basis to discuss what pressures and responsibilities we
may have picked up or assumed that our partner may see as a danger
to self or to our relationship or as taking time away from our two
children. I is amazing how many added tasks we take on that by
themselves are small but taken as a whole soon lead to an
over-burdened situation that puts stress on our household. Do I
really have to be an officer in the elementary PTO? Does Jon really
need to attend every meeting of his civic club? Do the kids really
need dancing lessons? Such questions and our negotiated answers
have helped us both lessen the load and simplify our lives. May
other couples would like to try it! Becky in Austin, TX
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