A Visit to The Marriage Counselor

After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade, listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married.

On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an long laundry list of unmet needs she had endured.  

Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and, after asking the woman to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately, as her husband watched – with a raised eyebrow. The woman became silent and sat down 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?”

“Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish.”

7 thoughts on “A Visit to The Marriage Counselor

  1. Thanks Cathleen. Proverbs 17:22, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”

    Just emailed this to my husband’s best friend, an avid fisherman here in Central Florida.

  2. Sorry I don’t understand.
    “the wife went into a tirade, listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married.”

    Seems to me the problem lies with the wife not the husband.

    I think these days 1 Corinthians 11:3 (“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”) is overlooked or no longer applies.

    It has been my experience, it takes two to tango.

    Perhaps, men need to be, ..embraced and kissed long and passionately.. too.

  3. Many women turn away from their husbands who love them very much and the one thing in the universe he is trying to provide for, love and protect no longer wants anything from him. That is awful. It is also MOST often the case.

    Socialism, Feminism, and all leftist ideas have DISTROYED marriages. When this war that is coming starts all American men with barren marriages just remember who did this to you.

  4. “Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish.”

    Maybe he does house calls.

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