Melissa Wood-Tepperberg

I married someone in nightlife.

Like you don't get more polar opposite than this.

Okay.

And I

You know, here I am and I'm like, well, why aren't you meditating and you're staying out so late?

And then you do have to have these moments where I'm like, well, I knew this.

Yes.

So what you just said, I wanted to change him.

He didn't want me to.

And then I blossom like this butterfly.

And I have gotten to this place where it's still a daily practice of not saying something in that moment because what is it that I'm trying to say?

change the way in which... And I think and know that is why I've been with my husband for 15 years, because I've been able to recognize that for a good half of our partnership, I was very much fully thought that I could just...

Get him in a meditation pose and like this is going to be it.

Now, the more that I let go and I don't nag and I don't passive aggressively say things.

I used to be like that.

Still, you know, we still work on the moments where it's coming out.

He meditates.

Totally.

He's doing the things.

From his own free will.