A Marriage Haunting
You don’t believe in ghosts? Think again.
They were having a disagreement.
He thought one way and she the other.
To move forward into their day they will need to figure this little problem out. Who will do what and when? Who will get their way this time and why?
This is the stuff of living together in a close relationship. There is nothing wrong with this and, in fact, if handled well, it can actually strengthen the bonds of loving matrimony.
But then sometimes something wicked this way comes.
It’s a small comment, a little remark, a recollection about some unrelated issue thought long ago resolved, dead, and buried.
Out of the crypt has arisen a resentment, something that should have had a stake driven into it long ago.
Now it’s out and cackling; calling all its evil friends to come play.
Suddenly a small problem has grown into a Cat 5 hurricane threatening to destroy everything and everyone in its path.
This year as Halloween approaches take some time to think about ways to strengthen relationships by driving stakes through the ghouls and goblins of the haunted past.
Resolve to live and let live in the light of this present day.
And if there are unresolved resentments, work to put them to rest once and for all time, never to exhume them again.
I have told some people not to use my past as a weapon against me. So far it is seeming to work, but, when it comes up again I repeat "Don't use my past as a weapon against me".