Widow's Two Mites

 Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. 

A sign of a bad relationship is that one or both partners expect either to make the other happy or for their partner to make them happy.  This is not only an unrealistic expectation to lay on yourself or on them — nobody can “make” you happy, except you — but it is an unrealistic expectation to lay on your relationship.  Relationships are not only about being happy, and there is lots of times when you will not and even should not be.  Being able to rely on someone even when you are upset, miserable, depressed, or grieving is a lot more important than being happy all the time.  If you expect your partner to make you happy — or worse, you are frustrated because you are not able to make your partner happy — your relationship is not going to fare well when it hits a rough spot.

“As He looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ‘I tell you the truth,’ He said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Luke 21:1-3

 

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