Mick Hunt reflects on a daily choice: let past pain make you protective, or use it to move toward what matters. He draws on 16 years of marriage and raising two children to show how honesty and vulnerability become deliberate decisions, not defaults.
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I think we all have a decision daily, with work, with practice, not in isolation. We have a decision to say, will I make my past pain a mechanism to protect myself from people? Or I use my past pain as a mechanism to propel myself in the direction of my purpose. And I think it's a question we have to ask her. It's a question I have to ask myself daily today. Daily. Been married 16 years, got a nine year old, got a six year old, good friends, a great community, but spent a lot of time, effort, energy, building friendships. And I have to ask myself daily, the guy that gets on Instagram every day and says, you got this, let's go, let's do it. I have to ask myself daily, Rocky, why did you not accept expressed your feelings to your wife? Is it because you are trying to protect yourself? Because you're afraid if you're honest, she will leave like everyone else? Or are you going to express how you feel because you want to propel yourself in the direction of your purpose, which is to build a committed relationship with someone unlike anything you have ever physically witnessed in your own life? But that's a decision I have to make. That's a question I have to ask myself. No one else is responsible for that other than me.
