Overworked and Underappreciated

Author: Unknown

Location: Kuwait

Mom and dad were watching TV when mom said, “I’m tired, and it’s getting late. I think I’ll go to bed.”

She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the next day’s lunches, rinsed out the popcorn bowls, took meat out of the freezer for supper the following evening, checked the cereal box levels, filled the sugar container, put spoons and bowls on the table and started the coffee pot for brewing the next morning.

She then put some wet clothes in the dryer, put a load of clothes into the washer, ironed a shirt and secured a loose button. She picked up the game pieces left on the table and put the telephone book back into the drawer. She watered the plants, emptied a wastebasket and hung up a towel to dry. She yawned and stretched and headed for the bedroom.

She stopped by the desk and wrote a note to the teacher, counted out some cash for the field trip, and pulled a textbook out from hiding under the chair. She signed a birthday card for a friend, addressed and stamped the envelope and wrote a quick note for the grocery store. She put both near her purse.

Mom then washed her face with 3 in 1 cleanser, put on her night solution and age fighting moisturizer, brushed and flossed her teeth and filed her nails.

Dad called out, “I thought you were going to bed.”

“I’m on my way,” she said. She put some water into the dog’s dish and put the cat outside, then made sure the doors were locked. She looked in on each of the kids and turned out their bedside lamps, hung up a shirt, threw some dirty socks into the hamper, and had a brief conversation with the one up still doing homework. In her own room, she set the alarm; laid out clothing for the next day, straightened up the shoe rack. She also added three things to her 6 most important things to do list. She said her prayers, and visualized the accomplishment of her goals.

About that time, dad turned off the TV and announced to no one in particular. “I’m going to bed.” And he did, without another thought.

Is there anything extraordinary here?

Crossroad

Written by: Anonymous

I’m at a crossroad right now.

I know a man that I care very much for. He’s willing to move mountains for me and he has proved that on so many occasions.

He wants to marry me. I do not have this maniacal passion towards him although I do respect him tremendously and know that he is a good, generous, kind man. I know that he’ll pamper me, indulge my every whim and when I’m with him, he brings tides of tranquility to my being like no one does, not even my family.

But he’s old. Maybe too old for me and it is because of this fact that I can’t seem to be able to find him “sexually” attractive.

Although we meet and fit on the mental, emotional and the physical level, there’s just no chemistry.

So I don’t know. How important is it to have that physical chemistry in marriage?

Mind you, we haven’t been intimate AT ALL. I mean we haven’t even held hands yet, not even a hand shake, which is bizarre, because I shake hands with EVERYONE, but not him. So, I haven’t really tested it! But even the urge to test is not there. Am I making any sense?

I really don’t know. How is the success of a marriage to be evaluated? Or rather, how is a good husband to be determined? If a good man and a good woman both have compatible personalities and have been close friends for over a decade, would that be a vital ingredient for a successful marriage?