Matthew Hussey talks about struggling to ask for alone time, even just to read a book. He feels responsible for his wife Audrey's happiness and fears voicing his own needs, but realizes he has to get over that reluctance.
One of the things that I have come to enjoy in my life is just moments of being able to sit and read a book, just to sit and read. And, you know, it doesn't matter if my wife Audrey is there, but just to feel like it's the same as if I was only on my own. In other words, I just feel like I'm in my own company and able to fully relax doing that without feeling the need to entertain somebody else. It's a feeling of being responsible for somebody else's emotions. and their happiness or their joy. Yeah. And so it would make me, I realize I had to come to terms with the fact that I was afraid to speak up about what I needed, about really silly little things, you know, not, I was afraid to say I really could use just a night to myself, or I could really use just a few hours to just read.
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