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these potatoes.”
“I really appreciate your washing the dishes tonight.”
“Thanks for getting the baby-sitter lined up tonight. I
want you to know I don’t take that for granted.”
“I really appreciate your taking the garbage out.”
What would happen to the emotional climate of a
marriage if the husband and wife heard such words of
affirmation regularly?

Several years ago, I was sitting in my office with my door
open.
A lady walking down the hall said, “Have you got a
minute?”
“Sure, come in.”
She sat down and said, “Dr. Chapman, I’ve got a
problem. I can’t get my husband to paint our bedroom. I
have been after him for nine months. I have tried everything
I know, and I can’t get him to paint it.”
My first thought was, Lady, you are at the wrong place.
I am not a paint contractor. But I said, “Tell me about it.”
She said, “Well, last Saturday was a good example.
You remember how pretty it was? Do you know what my
husband did all day long? He washed and waxed the car.”
“So what did you do?”
“I went out there and said, ‘Bob, I don’t understand you.
Today would have been a perfect day to paint the bedroom,