Reading Highlight

Occasionally my wife, Ellen, will ask me to attend to a difficulty she is having. Usually I will listen and come up with a solution, but my quick response does not usually satisfy Ellen because her intention is to have me accompany her within the problem rather than solve it. In my more worldly moments, my mind can look at problems as an imposition, something to get over; her mind looks at problems as a method for connecting and working together. She is using a problem to move us vertically, and I am using it to clean up the horizontal mess. Both dimensional responses have their time and place, but we need to be aware of which axis we are acting from so there can be flexibility between options.