Recently, we celebrated the birthdays of two grandfathers’ turning 80 and 85. This grandson asked, “What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned through the years?”
Both men got a twinkle eye, gave a boyish grin, and said, “I didn’t think I’d make it this far!” Then they sowed a few seeds of advice:
“Don’t lie.”
“Don’t carry baggage.”
“Take life as it comes.”
“Learn to give and take.”
Reflecting on more than six decades loving the same woman, both guys got tears in their eyes and said, “It’s her.”
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Friday, July 18, 2008 - Great discussion!
Posted by Anonymous
Great discussion!!! A great book for married men is "How to Love You Wife" by Dr. John Buri. It changed my life!!
Here's the short description of the book: Some people have suggested that a successful marriage requires tremendous insight to understand and super-human effort to achieve. Others contend that happy marriages are the purview of a lucky few. In this ground-breaking book, How To Love Your Wife, it is revealed how thriving marriages can actually be achieved through sensible effort by reasonable people. But here's the catch. Since the majority of marriages in this country consist of unions in which wives are more heavily invested in marital success than are their husbands, much of this sensible effort by reasonable people needs to be consistently initiated and maintained by men. In fact, men often hold the keys to bringing about the type of loving marriage they had hoped for when they first said "I do." In How To Love Your Wife, these keys are made clear, understandable, and accessible.
John Buri's website: http://personal.stthomas.edu/jrburi/
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