“Marriage cannot thrive on leftover attention. It has to get your best effort.” Ngina Otiende
When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband and I attended a parenting class. During one of the sessions, the instructor asked the participants – all new or soon-to-be parents – who comes first: your spouse or your child? I smugly answered that my husband comes first, duh. Simple answer. A few months later we welcomed our son. I’ll never forget the first time I laid eyes on my beautiful baby boy. The feeling of elation and overwhelming love was unlike anything I had experienced before. I became utterly and absolutely obsessed with my sweet little baby…and promptly forgot about anyone else, including my husband. Once the newborn fog cleared up, I remembered the question of the parenting instructor and thought, huh. Not so simple an answer after all.
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