A Lovely Couple

I came across this lovely blog, "An Experiment in Poverty", and absolutely fell in love with this adorable couple, Jasmine & Levi! She made a wonderful post on her blog, "Good Habits" that I posted below. Please visit her site and I know you will become an instant fan as well!

"levi and i have adopted a new little bedtime ritual over the last 2 weeks. before we say goodnight, we tell each other one thing we like about them and one thing we like about ourselves. it's been incredible. not only do we get to end the day with compliments, but we have learned more about each other in the process. the self-praise aspect of it has been really good for me especially. i have a tendency to be really hard on myself. and i mean REALLY freakin hard on myself. so it's good for me to make myself come up with something nice to say.

anyway, levi's compliment to me last night made my heart swoon and swim and then melt a little. he told me that he loved how much i love him. he then went onto say that he had always wanted "to be loved like crazy" and that i did this for him (and trust me, i do love this man like crazy. i'm nutso for him). i can't tell you how happy this made me! being told that i was fulfilling a wish he had since long before he met me made my heart so full and just about broke my face from the smile it produced.

i highly recommend this habit to all you couples out there. and all you singles too, for that matter. there's no reason you can't compliment yourselves too. try it for a few nights, and see what happens. :)

p.s. you don't need to be married, living together, or sleeping next to each other to do this. it's not a night time or in person only kind of a thing. you can even try it with your friends or family! you can speak it, sing it, write it, or send it up in smoke signals to make it your own."