I’ll give you a second to get Aretha Franklin out of our head.<\/p>\n
By the time this post goes live I will be at my local middle school getting ready for my local caucus (if you are also in Iowa I hope you are reading this either before heading out or after returning from the caucus- it’s important!!!).<\/p>\n
The caucuses lead me to my point today- that of respect.\u00a0 If you noticed the photo attached to this post it is of what looks like two identical boxes.\u00a0 They are the same size and the same shape.\u00a0 They both contain information for caucus night.\u00a0 One is mine and one is my husband’s.\u00a0 Why do we have two?\u00a0 Because mine is from the Mayor Pete campaign and my husband’s is from the Bernie Sanders campaign.\u00a0 Note-\u00a0 If you need a reminder why I’m #teamPete you can see that post here http:\/\/beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz\/teampete\/<\/a><\/p>\n A lot of people find it hard to fathom that we are supporting two different candidates.\u00a0 Most of these people don’t know us very well, but even a few who do seem unusually troubled by this.\u00a0 Yet to my husband and me it’s no big deal.\u00a0 In fact, he is the one who encouraged me to check out Mayor Pete because he thought I would really like him.<\/p>\n Simply put, my husband respects my brain and my ability to make my own decisions.\u00a0 He respects my need to sometimes turn the thermostat up or down.\u00a0 He respects my time spent on hobbies and interests that don’t appeal to him.\u00a0 He respects my opinions and viewpoints that don’t match his.\u00a0 He respects my autonomy over my own body.\u00a0 And of course I respect him in all the same ways as well.<\/p>\n This seems like it should be the most common of common sense, yet I hear all the time “My husband won’t let me do that” or “My wife says I can’t do that”.\u00a0 Of course, if you want to do something immoral or illegal that’s one thing, but I’m talking about little things like going to a concert or other event alone or spending money you earned yourself on a small luxury that you can very easily afford.<\/p>\n And it’s not just in marriages where respect seems to be a lost art (although that’s certainly one place it should exist!).\u00a0 Coworkers, friends, even family members talk trash about each other, insult each other’s opinions, and are just generally not all that great at showing respect.\u00a0 I personally think it’s gotten worse since Trump has been in the White House.\u00a0 You can disagree with me about that, but I think we can all agree respecting each other is something we ALL can and should do better at.<\/p>\n It’s still early in the year.\u00a0 I propose we all resolve to do better at respecting each other for the rest of 2020.\u00a0 Are you in?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll give you a second to get Aretha Franklin out of our head. By the time this post goes live I will be at my local middle school getting ready for my local caucus (if you are also in Iowa I hope you are reading this either before heading out or after returning from the caucus- it’s important!!!). The caucuses… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t