JENUINE

Connection

I was craving conversation around how I could better honor my relationship by releasing the pressure and nagging resentments from being the sole income earner within my home.

I deeply desired to spend more time in my feminine to receive in ways that softened me because I am really good at functioning in my masculine energy. I know I have been entrusted to shift the paradigm for mothers, wives and women because I can’t find anyone who is doing what I am doing that can help guide me.

My husband and I made the decision ten years ago that he would leave his career so that I could continue building my business when we had children. My business was more profitable and I deeply craved his presence to parent our children together It made sense We were ignorance on fire and so excited for our family.

The spoiler alert is that we were met with a lot of discomfort and judgments from others Whispers of disapproval were placed upon me from those who had never had this opportunity or had even considered it for themselves I say all the time that there has never been a more incredible time to be a woman We are shifting paradigms, disrupting old ways and standing into our capacity in a way that rattles and triggers the generations past.

Women have never had so much access to money, power and abundance. It has so much liberation and also so many tentacles. I was influenced by those who were uncomfortable with our lifestyle and I often projected these opinions upon our relationship. They weren’t my thoughts but I was allowing them to pollute the purity of our joint decision

By Jen Szpigiel

I’m openly admitting that I didn’t do a great job edifying, celebrating and advocating for my husband and our home I have since learned how to do better. It came from a chapter in Untamed by Glennon Doyle where she told her parents that she was leaving her husband and had fallen deeply in love with a woman.

Naturally, as parents do, they were worried and told her of all their fears. Glennon expressed how that rippled into her relationship and was tainting the joy and ecstasy of their new relationship. She and Abby decided to act as though they were on an island and that you could only join them on this island if you had done the work to accept and celebrate their love and relationship Glennon had to pull up the draw bridge from her family several times until she was met with complete surrender, trust and acceptance for their union and family This taught me

My husband and I have done a lot of work on ourselves as well as a couple to realize our truth. To actualize the joy and fulfillment we get to have and create within our home that doesn’t need the approval or acceptance from anyone else We realized we aren’t suppose to make sense to others because we don’t live a conventional life in any way shape or form Nor do we want to

I saw how so many of my resentments and projections were side affects of conversations and opinions that were shared with me. I know they came from love and protection but they were from a different life experience. They didn’t belong to me.