Wearing Down the Nicest Guys
IllustrationStory★★★MEN must be careful to purposefully honor their wives. If not done purposefully, time and familiarity have a way of wearing down even the nicest guys. It’s like the guy who married the lady who caught a cold every year of their marriage. The first year he said, “Sugar, darling, this cold is making you mighty uncomfortable.
Why don’t you let your lover boy take his baby to the doctor to get rid of this nasty cough?” The second year of marriage he said, “Darling, that cold seems to be getting worse. Why don’t you go call Dr. Miller?”
The third year of marriage he said, “You better lie down and rest with that cold before the baby wakes up.” During the fourth year of marriage, he told her, “Be sensible now and take care of that cold before it gets any worse.”
By the fifth year of marriage, he would say to her, “You’ll be all right, just take some aspirin. By the way, how about ironing these pants for me to wear today.” Six years into marriage, the husband would tell his wife, “Would you do something about that cold and stop barking like a seal?” By the seventh year of marriage he sounded something like this: “Woman, do something about that cold before you give me pneumonia.”
The point
A humorous look at how a husband's tender concern for his wife fades into indifference year after year of marriage warns men to purposefully keep honoring their spouses.