SELF-REFLECTION AND PERSONAL GROWTH WRITING CHALLENGE

The Person That I Can Count On The Most Is My Partner — Day 3

Dr. Tracy Davis writing challenge of self-reflection and personal growth

Mike is the one I can count on most

I didn’t really have to think hard about this today. Who is the person that I can count on the most? I mean, if I didn’t say Mike, I’d be out of my mind. He saved me the first time when I needed help when I was about to be kicked out of the shared house my roommate and I had when Mike and I first met.

That was mid-May 2014. This is significant because that was only about a month into our new relationship. I had lost my job around the time that I met him after I had an accident on my bicycle riding downhill at night.

I was busted and bruised badly from that. I was also traumatized and my bicycle was my only mode of transportation to go to work. Once that went away, I was pretty much useless.

Then again, when we were forced out of our rental in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, we knew that we had a backup plan with our box truck tiny home idea. There is no way that I would’ve been able to do that alone. I’m not good with my hands, I can’t work on cars, and I don’t know my way around electricity.

Mike is quite handy and it helped us especially with our current living situation

Luckily, Mike is a licensed master electrician and he knew exactly what kind of batteries we’d need for our truck to power our home and also how to work on an engine so when we had to fix the engine not once, but twice, he did all of that labor over time despite the pain from his multiple sclerosis. I just tried my hardest to be there and supportive to him while we had to take so much time to get everything ready.

I did learn a lot about electricity and cars during that time though. That also helped me become a top writer in Energy on Medium, one category I never thought that I would touch or even have any business being around before writing. Speaking of writing, he’s also very supportive of me in my writing career.

Getting pulled away at times but leaning on him for support and helping each other through the pain

Sometimes the numerous publications that I own and edit along with my writing pull me away from him for long stretches but I try to pull him back in by making him my editor. I love either reading my stories out loud to him or having him read them for me to make sure they are readable.

When it comes to both of our physical pain, he’s there. We try to be there for each other because we both can’t work regular jobs. When I have severe cramps, pain, or don’t feel well, he’ll be super supportive and loving to me even if I’m being a crab or cranky. I don’t know where it stems from but I get irritable often. Sometimes, even he can’t bring me down from that mood but he’s sweet and patient enough to at least try. I think that I depend on him more than anyone.

We’ll always need each other, but I know that I’ll always love and need him

I also spend most of all of my days with him since neither one of us can work. Even though it seems like I’m off doing my own thing and thinking of stuff and trying to problem solve on my own, I come to him with a lot and I always want to know what he’s working on when he’s typing away.

I hope that I’m also the person that he depends on and can count on the most. I know I can be difficult to live with sometimes and it may not always come off that way. I do try to be his rock and whenever he feels anxious and depressed as he tries to be for me.

I couldn’t ever imagine not needing him for anything in my life. Obviously, I love him but I also can’t live a fulfilling life without him so I definitely want to continue depending and counting on him the most as we grow old together.

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