I just started reading a book called Undefended Love  by Jett Psaris and Marlena Lyons, which is a beautiful book about building deeper intimacy, understanding and closeness in relationships, romantic and otherwise.  Something I read in the first chapter has really stuck with me: 

“If you want to see what’s possible, how you can love another without reservation, all you have to do is imagine that your partner has contracted a deadly disease and you only have six months left together.  What kind of person do you want to be in the remaining time you have with one another?” 

I don’t know about you, but that’s something I never like to think about or imagine about my loved ones, which is why I think the question is so profound.  So often, we get so entrenched in our need to be right, or our need to control, or our need to have things our way that we end up alienating the people we love most and who love us most.  For me, those three things (needing to be right, be in control, and have things my way) would be the things I would want to change about myself.  And of course, I don’t have to wait.  I can start TODAY! 

What kind of person would you want to be if you ever learned you only have six months to spend with someone you love?  What would you become more or less of?  Are YOU ready to start today?