You’ve Changed…

Last updated: Jun 25, 2019

“You’re always in the process of becoming. You aren’t who you were and you aren’t who you are going to be.” Rob Bell

Maybe some of this sounds familiar:

“You’ve changed. Now you’re too…(fill-in the blank).”

“Why can’t you just go back to the woman you were when we got married?”

“I don’t even know who you are anymore.”

I’m not sure exactly where we got this idea that, as living beings, the day we get married, we’re supposed to be freeze-dried and placed into a little box…

Never to evolve or grow…

Never to challenge ourselves and become a better version of ourselves…

Never to learn something new that life has taught us and apply it into our lives.

Of course we’ve changed.

We’re supposed to change.

The result of our life experiences is growth and to become the best version of ourselves.

We’re not the same woman at 40 or 50 that we were in our 20s and 30s…

Our fears and hopes and dreams today look very different than they did in our younger years…

Therefore, of course we don’t want the same things in our 40s and 50s as we did in our 20s and 30s.

Where we used to crave certainty and stability, a provider and protector, or a good father…Now we crave passion and connection (mostly because we’ve lived decades feeling the absence of those things and technology only keeps us increasingly disconnected from each other), intimacy and vulnerability. We want to feel alive, we want to feel both desire and desired, we want experiences more than things.

The paradox here is that we resist change and yet there is not a single thing on this planet we could point to that does not change:

  • There are millions of cells that are being replaced in our bodies every single minute (and I know my body sure doesn’t look or feel the same as it did 10 or 20 years ago…yours?)…
  • The blade of grass outside and the leaves on the tree outside my window…constantly changing (hence lawnmowers and leaf blowers)…
  • The home I live in and the furniture I sit upon…
  • The food in the refrigerator…
  • The clouds in the sky…
  • Our children…(for goodness sakes…..)
  • Our friendships and relationships…
  • Our talents and interests…

NONE OF IT REMAINS STATIC.

When we (or our partners) don’t want things to change, we’re reaching for control and certainty so that we can feel safe in what can feel like a pretty unsafe world sometimes.

But if we don’t start embracing some degree of change and realize the perfection within that change, maybe the answer is to just up and move to some other planet. Because this planet and the people within it change……constantly.

If you don’t think moving to another planet is a viable option, maybe it’s time to just EMBRACE change.

Maybe it’s time to show it a little love and a little curiosity.

Maybe it’s time to be open to what life has to show you and where change takes you.

It’s part of our evolution. Everything is happening exactly as it should. Once you realize you’ve grown wings, you have no other choice but to use them (and wings don’t fit into a small, little box).

You couldn’t be freeze-dried and placed into a well-preserved container for the rest of your days even if you wanted to (or even if you really wanted to please your fearful partner desperately grasping for the impossible)…

There’s not need to hide it or apologize for it.

Yes, you’ve changed.

You will continue to change and evolve and grow and expand; there is no finish line.

And all is well.

 

How have you changed? How have you grown or evolved? What can you feel shifting in you right now? I want to hear from you in the comments below……..

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