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Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Your Spouse’s Dreams
“That’s it, this is the last week of lazy Nelly….starting on Sunday it’s a five-mile run a day, minimum, for me.”
“I’m tired of this job, seriously, this is the last day, tomorrow I am actually, seriously going to quit; enough is enough.”
“I am going to do it, seriously this time. I’m going to write that book by the end of the year, no, the end of the month.”
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. I’m done eating like shit, today is it….diet starts tomorrow.”
And what do we say to all of this?
“Good for you!”
“I’m so proud of you!”
“You go knock their socks off!”
“You’re amazing!”
Stop this.
Do not encourage the incorrigible.
Do not exclaim with sheer excitement every time your partner tells you about one of their new or continually recurring dreams masked as goals.
These are not goals.
These are dreams.
