Marriage Counseling

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After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling.

When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate,

painful 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 entire 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 wife to

stand, embraced and kissed her passionately as her husband watched

with a raised eyebrow.The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though

in a daze. The therapist turned to the husband and said, 'this is what

your wife needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?'



'Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on

Fridays, I fish.'