Michelle1 went through a tough time but came out stronger.

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Interviewer: So – and you said that at this point you feel like this whole experience has actually strengthened your relationship?

Well, we’ve had to become very good communicators very quickly. And we had various counselling sessions before, like our marriage wasn’t in the best place before my son was born. And we had seen multiple counsellors and tried multiple approaches to making it better. But here it’s really our son who is making us be the best person, be the best selves we can be. And we have to do that because he can pick up if we’re angry with each other, he can pick up if we fight. My husband whenever we fight likes to sort of retreat and process things. And he’ll stay angry for a while, that strategy can’t work anymore, not with a little guy who’s seeing everything we do.

And we’re also very opposite of one another. So, we have opposite approaches to parenting so we have to come to some kind of understanding of how we’re going to parent. Sometimes you need to make decisions quickly. So, we’ve become closer in that capacity. We’ve become better as a team, we’ve become stronger as parents. More patient with each other. And we were having a conversation the other day where he was mentioning, and I agree with him, he was mentioning that, you know, having a child, having our son really puts things into perspective as to what is worth fighting about, what is a large issue and what isn’t.

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