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Does your partner appreciate you?

Amanda Gravely
3 min readJan 28, 2020

It can be very easy to start taking your partner for granted.

We fall into a comfortable routine and before you know it we no longer appreciate what someone else does for us. We start taking them for granted.

Or maybe your on the other side of it like me, and your the one being taken advantage of.

My husband and I have a very comfortable relationship. From the outside it looks like we are happy and everything is good. If you ask my husband he would tell you we have a very good relationship.

The truth is I feel like a slave on most days. I feel like he expects me to take care of him because I am a woman and it’s my duty. He requires more attention then my two year old son on some days.

I know how that sounds. But I have to say that my son gets his own drink out of the fridge and can even get his own bowl, spoon or plate from the drawer. My husband on the other hand walks past the fridge, sits down, then asks me to get him a drink. And of course I do.

I guess maybe it’s my own fault I’m being taken advantage of. Well It’s going to stop, because I’m strong enough to stand up for myself and tell him how I feel.

Maybe you don’t know if you are being used and taken for granted. All relationships are a give and take if you are the one doing…

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Amanda Gravely
Amanda Gravely

Written by Amanda Gravely

I am a multi genre author writing mostly romance, fantasy, and sci-fi.

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