Joey and I often half-jokingly say that the “greatest sin” in our marriage is that of being in a bad mood. So many bad consequences can stem from it; hurtful, unthought-of-carefully (hindi pinag-isipang mabuti) words that make the smallest argument spiral into something way bigger and a hundred miles off the initial topic. Being in a bad mood makes you less caring and more selfish, makes you talk in unloving and combative ways, and sometimes, when you’re particularly destructive and you feel like wallowing in your pity/bad mood pool, it’s just really guaranteed to exhaust the heck out of you two. I’m sure anyone who has argued with their significant other will agree.

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