How my husband & I built a solid foundation through parenthood.

First came love, second came marriage - then came babies in a baby carriage! 👶

Life changes, and we can choose to EVOLVE or stay the same. Either way- the flow is moving. 🌊 Especially from being single, to united with another, and then parenting.

Motherhood.

Fatherhood.

The struggle is real.🙃

Whether you realize it or not, you're changing every day. The world around us, our cells, our bodies, our relationships, our children - everything is changing. 🌏

How my husband & I built a solid foundation through parenthood. (A few highlights🔦)

1. We take time and work inwardly, on who WE are as individuals. (MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY) ✨️

2. We put up BOUNDARIES with outside people to protect our sacred bond. ♥️✌️ (because people envy that)

3. We "hold space" for one another. We don't try to "up each other" by yelling louder, playing the silent treatment, or EVER side commenting to our children about one another if we are angry.

We both experienced this treatment as children and young adults ourselves within our biological families - we learned HOW to heal those wounds and BREAK FREE of those generational toxic cycles. ✌️

4. We are mindful that our behavior (isn't perfect) but is being seen, heard, and felt by our own children.

5. We give ourselves grace and forgiveness when we F-up.

6. We don't keep score. We are in this together - through sickness and in health, through good times and bad. And I have LOVED watching the teenage boy I fell in love with, grow into a man, adoring husband and incredible father. ❤️

Before our parenting relationship could thrive, we peaked ⛰️...and when we did, we noticed in those defining "peak moments" - we must go back to the practices of self-love, self-acceptance, and do the work. 💪

It's not simple. It's not easy, but it sure is worth it.

And our marriage is beautiful because of it. 💫#loveourlove

xo, Aubrey