How to Ask Your Partner for a Change

One of my favorite bloggers, Michele Lisenbury Christensen, has a beautiful post on ‘requesting change’:

I’m a requester.

I have made more – and more daring – requests of my husband in the 15 years we’ve been together than some partners make in a lifetime. In the process, I’ve learned a lot about making requests that engender change.

Often, my learning has come from making ridiculous requests that would be difficult for anyone to hear, let alone act upon.

Ooops.

But my dogged determination to keep my life and our relationship evolving has sent me back to the drawing board time and again to reconfigure how I was thinking about the change I wanted and how I talked to him about it.

What’ve I learned the hard way that maybe – prayers flying heavenward as we speak! – you could learn by my baaad example.” Full story at: via How to Ask Your Partner for a Change : The Calm Space.