Is it worth it?

We all need to gauge ourselves when it comes to what is "worth it" in our relationships.  The worth I'm talking about has no monetary vailue.  You can't save it up and buy anything material.  You won't be able to go out on the town with it or anything.  It will have great value though.  It will continue to appreciate in value as much as you create the possibility for it to exist. 

It's self worth that I'm talking about.  What is your self worth.  You hear a lot of people talk about other people's relationships and they low self esteem, low self worth, etc. or they wouldn't stay with them.  Pretty common right?  What about your low self worth causing you to be petty?  Like having some small thing that you want to fight about.  In the fight it rises to deal breaker for you when really it was small in the grand scheme of things.  I often use the anaolgy of taking out the trash.  Why does the trash have to be a point of contention in an otherwise great relationship?  The conversation would go something like this.....

"I need you to take out the trash"
"Okay, I'll get to it when I'm done here"
5 minutes later.....
"I need it taken out right now!"
"I said I'd take care of it when I'm done here"
"You don't care about me"
"I do care about you? what are you talking about?"

Then the argument escalates from there.  How did we go from taking out the trash being more important than the worth of either person or the relationship?  I think it's low self worth.  Good, positive self worth would never allow a person to apply the meaning that a task means that there significant other doesn't care about them.  Then you have to ask yourself "why would you go there over a petty insignificant item of any kind?"

So work on yourself and analyze why something so small rises to such importance. Make sure it's worth what you're throwing away.......