A man was married to a
beautiful girl. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family
came to see the lovely ceremony. Everyone had a wonderful time in the marriage.
The bride was gorgeous
in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo.
Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later,
the wife came to the husband with a proposal: "I read in a magazine, a
while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage." She offered.
"Each of us will
write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person.
Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier
together."
The husband agreed. So
each went into a separate room in the house and started thinking of the things
that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the
rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.
The next morning, at
the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.
"I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many
items on it. It’s more than 3 pages. As she started reading the list of the
little annoyances, she noticed the tears in her husband’s eyes.
"What's
wrong?" she asked. "Nothing" the husband replied, "keep
reading your lists."
The wife continued to
read until she had read all three pages. She neatly placed her list on the
table and folded her hands over the top of it. "Now, you read your list
and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists," She said
happily.
Quietly the husband
stated, “I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way
that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and
wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you."
The wife, touched by
his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned
her head and wept.
MORAL: The secret of
happiness is accepting each other as they are.
No comments:
Post a Comment