Relationships & Communication

So this post isn't as whimsical and poetic as most of my previous ones, but I just want to get it out. I've always heard how crucial communication is in a relationship, but I've never had to really practice it...until now. I always thought I was the easiest person in the world to get along with, that is, of course, when it was just me. But now that I'm in a relationship with a significant other, I've realized quite a few new things about myself.

1. I tend to keep my thoughts to myself
2. I tend to keep my thoughts to myself...until they build up
3. When they build up, they tend to come out at the most inconvenient times in the most unpleasant sort of ways
4. I don't like thinking I'm at fault
5. I want to memorize Philippians 2 again

Okay, maybe those aren't hugely new revelations to me, but they're just in my face a lot more nowadays. This has been a sort of learn-as-you-go-along experience for me, which totally does not fit in with my organized little personality! My life isn't "perfect" anymore, but maybe if we learn to let "iron sharpen iron", we will come out as genuinely better people than the "perfect" people we were before.