Like many people these days, I work from a home office and the other day my wife walks in and says something while I was in the middle of a work session, preparing the slide deck for this Thursday’s Conscious Marriage Workshop.
I always like to work in a ‘Focus Block’ – a big chunk of uninterrupted time, usually with a countdown timer, so that I don’t get distracted or tempted to do less productive, shallow work… or get sucked into the time-vacuum of Youtube, email, Social media or anything else.
After I was done and on a break, I went over to her and said:
Me: “Hey lovely, what were you saying earlier?”
Wife: “Oh, you mean when you completely ignored me and didn’t even look up?”
Me: “I was doing a Focus Block.”
Wife: “Focus Block?! More like an “Ignore Your Wife” block.”
I had to crack up.
She has a point. It is, technically, an ‘ignore your wife’ block. But to be fair, it could equally be called a ‘don’t interrupt your husband’ block.
I’m sure there was a time when, largely due to my immaturity, this kind of thing would soon erupt into a volcanic argument. But these days, we both have a giggle and get back on with our day.
This is mostly due to the “Communication Secret” i’m going to be sharing on Thursday’s “Conscious Marriage Workshop”, for which, you can be assured, the slides were carefully prepared in a silent, uninterrupted, wife-free zone :
