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The Man In Love
There are gestures that are invariably done where all can see but not done so that all can see. For example, if you are at a restaurant and the waiter mistakenly overturns the tray of food on your wife’s dress. Out of love, the husband may have immediately got up and begun to attend to her, helping to clean her up and seeking other ways of making her comfortable and not embarrassed from the occurrence. Such a gesture though done openly by its very nature, could not have been done out of an intention to ‘play to the gallery’ in the open.
Such gestures of sacrifice, if truly genuine, and from a heart of love are seldom subsequently referred to or remembered by the husband. Husbands don’t expect to be formally appreciated by their wives for them. Husbands are simply pleased to have had the opportunity to assist and attend to their wives, and most of all to ensure that they are comfortable and joyful. Husbands who reach out to their wives in sacrificial gestures will not go around telling everybody what they did just to get applause or commendation. A genuine gesture of sacrifice must not be hypocritical. Our wives will know and easily distinguish genuine acts of sacrifice from
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