Qualities of an Ideal Partner: Honesty and Dependability

not just honest when something good has happened but honest mainly when something that's not so good has happened being honest is something that I think is just gone by the wayside that we're just living in this world of dishonesty nowadays and it's such a heartbreaking thing honesty is the number one in my mind honesty and dependability those are the number one and the number two things that make a relationship successful whether it's a relationship with your business partner or relationship with your spouse your brother your mother your cousin your grandma anybody honesty and dependability a farmer needs a partner that listens that knows how to listen and knows how to follow instructions to work together to accomplish a common goal a farmer's wife can't be too good for something okay she can't be too good to go out here and pick rocks she can't be too good to shovel manure she can't be too good to listen she can't be too good to take the garbage out she or he these petty little things that we bicker about and scorekeep that's something else it's super important for every relationship it's a fail Beyond fail Beyond fail scorekeeping is horrible for every relationship but anyhow the petty things that we tend to argue about in our daytoday lives are so super Petty when it comes down to it the life of these animals the seasons on this Farm the waterways The Creeks the ponds the grasses all of that stuff takes presidence over your petty bull crap the taking out of the garbage or you didn't wipe the toilet seat mention these things if these things are super important sit down and talk about them but don't score and don't be Petty about it because if you are that is always going to be a recipe for disaster if I score keep and say well I've been out feeding animals all day long what have you been doing just know and trust that she's doing her very best or he's doing his very best and if he's not meeting your expectation sit down and have an absolutely mature conversation about it and if that person can't sit down with you and have that mature conversation with you then that is not the person for you and you need to sit down and have that conversation also what about a nag a husband can be a nag and a wife can be a nag if you over nag your wife or you over nag your husband and you know you do it stop now don't be a nag I'm going to tell you guys some stories at the end of this about dates that I've been on and about things that I've experienced that are