Friday, July 11, 2008

It's Always Something

People have said to me. “Well you have a fairly new relationship and now you are dealing with cancer too. How do you know where the relationship is and how it relay is?”
I realized that after a certain age any time you enter a relationship you are also getting a prize in that Cracker Jack box. It might be step children, bad credit, chronic illness, job dissatisfaction. It might be a crazy former spouse or it might be cancer. It’s always something.

It’s not about separating the relationship from the things that come with it. Rather it is about seeing those things as factors you deal with or talk about or maneuver around in the relationship. There is not the relationship and then also cancer. It is folded together. Dealing with all of it is dealing with all of it.

We don’t know who discovered water but it certainly wasn’t the fish.

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