Release the Hurt

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

 -- Quote from Buckeye BonusMom on FB 

This applies to another blog I do called "Yours, Mine, & Ours" but I felt like this quote really applied to marriage too. It is inevitable that we are going to non-intentionally hurt our spouse emotionally from time to time and in varying degrees. You may not think about something before you speak it or you may not know how to word it in a way that embraces rather than pushes them away - hurting your spouse. You may do something that you know in hindsight was stupid and know that you hurt your spouse, or maybe you've said or done something that you are unaware of that hurt your spouse. 

 Whatever the source of the affliction, be willing to work through it together, help one another through the healing process of it all. Learn how to express yourself better so that it doesn't attack your spouse, learn to listen, learn to be a team and then release the hurt, the fear and move forward in strength.