@Uncle.TT
TT Smith
@Uncle.TT · 5:43

How soon do you expect your partner to grow?

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And I think a lot of times, as people, we know what we want out of our partner, but don't always have the words to articulate it. And so that could lead us either jumping a gun or just flipping the fuck out. But I think as it pertains to growth within a partner specifically, it's strange because in a relationship, you feel super attached to your partner and you feel like you know them and you feel like you guys are damn near one

In relationships, we grow, we change, we eveolve or devolve. What happens when your partner isnt growing at your pace??

@SeekingPlumb

@Uncle.TT

But I say all of that not in a reflection in any way on her. I don't know her, obviously, but that's just my thinking. If someone were to have that sort of thinking about me, I don't think we would make a good match
@MK1981
Michael Knight
@MK1981 · 2:11
And I think once you find a very mature partner, they're not going to be worried about whether or not you went to school or whatever, as long as you have a plan and you're trying to build yourself up. No one's actually concerned about that stuff because using college as a marker, and I'm college educated, I have two degrees. It's not like I didn't go that path
@Uncle.TT
TT Smith
@Uncle.TT · 3:09
I think that as a person or as a woman, or as a man could say, I want this, that, and the third from somebody. But if they can't offer it, I think that's where you have to now have a conversation with yourself. Or even if they can't offer, they might not be equipped to offer it at the moment or in the time that you want. And I think that's where things get a little bit tricky
@Uncle.TT
TT Smith
@Uncle.TT · 2:05

@MK1981

It. Hey, man, first and foremost, I want to say thank you so much for actually taking the time to reply to my question. And I wanted to give you a little bit of pushback and, and it's all just, you know, in good nature and just trying to progress the conversation. But I think that sometimes there can be a time frame, a frame on growth and certain things, depending on what it is within a relationships partner isnt. Pace, man
@MK1981
Michael Knight
@MK1981 · 4:19

@Uncle.TT

If we're talking like, number four, number five on a company list of important people, she would have been like five, I think, or four. And she lost her job. She was unemployed, and all the metrics of wet our relationship dynamics. And she was one of the people that would tell me, hey, I need you to progress. I need you to do x, y, and z, which would lead to a lot of our conversations and fights
@motoblanco
javon johnson
@motoblanco · 4:13
She's going to start getting impatient, and she's going to start looking to try to be with guys who she thinks are either who say what they mean and going to do what they say, or guys who are already on her level. So you don't want to find yourself in that situation where she's looking at you like, dude, you're like 5 miles behind me. You're 10 miles behind me. I don't know if I have enough patience to wait for you
@chitchatwithkk
Kitha Larie
@chitchatwithkk · 3:17
But it doesn't mean if he doesn't grow overnight, which I don't expect, that's not a problem because I'm going to help him and I'm going to encourage him. Now, if I help and encourage, and it's three years later and I'm still hearing the same story, then I know by then you're not going to do nothing
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