Margin.
Margin—a built-in gap for patience in your relationship, breathing room, a space for mistakes, a place where expectations are not quite met.
Do not read as; You do not get to have hopes or expectations in your relationships. Rather, in healthy relationships, you build room for your people to be human—to make mistakes along the way of them, regularly, showing up for you.
Consider significant emotional reactions. Intense reactions—to something you later describe as a minor infraction—can often signal a need for more margin in your relationships.
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