I was really happy when I got married to my wife.
I also was really happy when we finally had a child.
I loved both of them to death, but I also realized over the years I had become a bit of a jerk. I started becoming aggravated with some of the things my wife would do, that weren’t necessarily her fault. When she would burn our dinner for example, that made me frustrated because I was so hungry. I would eat the burned dinner anyway, but not after complaining about it. I realized how bad I made her feel sometimes, and I apologized to her for things like that. Also, I realized that I was being too tough on our son as well. I had him doing various chores around the house like letting the dog in and out of the yard, and also changing the air filter for the HVAC system. This one time he changed the air filter, I came to find that he put the air filter in backwards. I ended up yelling at him for it because I said there were arrows that pointed which way the air filter faced and the air filters are designed that way for a reason. He was very upset after I yelled at him, and I felt bad. I realized that he didn’t know because I never explained that to him, so it was in fact my own fault. Besides, he was too young to understand how an HVAC system works, but I wanted to explain to him so he would have a better understanding.