Re: strenuous relationship with my wife: to all the husbands of the world
I once go so hurt by my husband because I thought he had fallen out of love with me. It got to a point where I thought he was going to leave me. When I finally told him, he had a look of shock on his face and all he could say was, "But I do the dishes EVERY night." That's right. He wakes up before me because he knows I like to sleep in and makes our daughter her breakfast and sends her off to school. He sits with her while she does homework because I'm tired from work. Then he helps with (and sometimes does all by himself) dinner and, yes, he does the dishes almost every night, a task we both despise. So he says to me, "Honey, I HATE doing the dishes. There almost nothing I hate more. But I know you hate doing the dishes too, so I do them, because I love you. There is no one else in the world that I would do dishes for." >sigh< what are you going to do? Men sometimes show love differently than women want. Ask her what EXACTLY she needs you to do to show her that you care. In the end... I really do hate doing the dishes, so I let him show me how much he loves me in his own way, but at least now I know what he's doing and it makes me smile every time.
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