To Love & To Be Loved

It is amazing what seahorses can teach us about true love.  Today someone was telling me about the monogamous relationship that a seahorse has with its mate and at first, I was thinking that she was pranking me until I really did the research and found out that what she was saying was very true.  Did you know that once a seahorse finds its mate that it is stays with that mate for a lifetime? When they sleep at night, they link their tails together to keep from drifting apart.  The interesting part is that when one seahorse mate passes that within 3 hours to 1 day the other one passes.  It’s believe to be of a broken heart while many fight and says it’s a chemical imbalance the question still remains is it because of a broken heart.  That made me think of how much we can learn from a seahorse.  That was just my cute thought for today on relationships!

A soul mate is... someone whose way of viewing life isn't necessarily the same as yours but complements yours, so that there is not a compromise, there is a complement.

~ Paul Robear

~Truly Blessed,

Misherald "Missy" & Jonathan "JB" Brown

To Settle or Not To? That is The Question of Today

Many people would say settling is not the best way to handle a situation as a matter of fact most would say that settling is simply giving up.  However, the question remains is it wise to settle for a career, a spouse, or simply settling in life all together. Just so, you as a person do not feel alone or as if you are not, accepted?

I will admit for the past seven years I have just been settling for things never realize attempt to overcome issues.  My way of thinking is settling it got the situation handle quickly and effectively but then I began to wonder that if settling was just my way of avoiding instead of really working through things. For example, my love life or really the lack of a love life I have always made the comment about how I sacrifice it with the everyday needs of taking care of Jonathan and that I was more than willing to sacrifice this part of life. For me this was just settling because I was not wanting to deal with rejection or having to defend my time with my son. Was it right to settle maybe not but did I do it for all the right reasons?  There are many things I have simply settle for between the careers I have recently had in the past years to simply get by to simply settling for life as it is instead of attempting to push forward and achieve better things.

At some point, a person has to decide when they are finally ready to quit settling for things and have enough drive to simply go for broke and achieve ultimate satisfaction. Is your happiness worth sacrificing just so you do not feel lonely? Do you see this person being a positive influence to your child? As a single mother there are so many reasons that I do not just settle whether it is my son’s education, my personal life or my financial status while I may sacrifice some things I will not settle just to be happy.

~Truly Blessed,

Misherald “Missy” & Jonathan “JB” Brown