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I am like a textbook introvert. I get super drained when I have to be like on all the time or in social settings. Even though I have really strong social skills, it's just not my cup of tea. Anyways, we are out of town right now, we are visiting family and my husband, when we go and we visit family and we stay with family, he does a phenomenal job of looking for little pockets that he can like find in our days visiting family that he can like give to me that I can like use to like decompress and recharge without it being a thing. Because I'm also the same like person who like doesn't want to like make a scene or like change the plans or not go with the flow. Like I want to appear to be just like chill, cool, calm and collected and not like I'm internally dying inside because I've been social for too long. So like a good example was like this morning, my kids were making pancakes with their great grandparents and my husband was like, Alitzah, why don't you just go out and get us coffee? Instantly, my in-laws were like, oh, we have coffee here in the fridge, why don't you just? And my husband's like, oh, actually, we have a gift card to Starbucks that she wants to use, so she's just going to go and grab it. Knowing darn well that I'm going to take the longest route to Starbucks, I'm going to listen to my audiobook in the process, I'm going to take the longest route back home, I'm going to use that time to decompress and then like come back, right? Or we're going to a party tomorrow and it's a grad party, so I needed to get cash to put into the grad card. Yes, we could have just grabbed it like on our way to the grad party, but I think my husband just looked over and knew that it was like time for me to take a second to myself and in the middle of the day yesterday we were all outside playing, he's like, hey Alitzah, would you mind running and grabbing that cash so we can just have it all ready for tomorrow? Knowing darn well we don't need to go grab that cash, but just like discreetly like husband to wife being like, hey, go take a second to yourself. And I am so, so incredibly grateful for that. I would not be able to survive otherwise. And don't get me wrong, he is also just like so good at advocating for me even when he needs to be direct. Like not even in these like sly moments, but like there were times where like it got to a point in certain things where he just needed to be like, no, like Alitzah needs to take a second to herself, she'll be back. Like she, she needs to take a second, you guys are a lot. Like he is always my advocate when it comes to his family and I am so grateful for that. It's the same with him and my family. I cannot imagine traveling and visiting and staying with family otherwise as an introvert, I would fall apart.
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