Family Forum / Marriage / Marriage / January 2007

A husband  and wife came for counseling after 15 years of marriage.
When asked  what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate,
painful tirade  listing every problem they had ever had.   She went on
and on: neglect,  lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling
unloved and  unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had
endured over  the course of their marriage.

Finally, after allowing this to continue  for a length of time, the
therapist got up, walked around the desk,  asked the wife to stand,
and embraced and kissed her  passionately. The woman quietly sat down
as though in a  daze. The therapist turned to the husband and said,
"This is what  your wife needs at least three times a week. Can you do
this?"

The  husband thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I can drop her
off  here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but I fish on Fridays."