A question?
Please allow me to ask a question of all the female readers( as if I had any male readers). A question if the form of a story.
Now, Sue and Bill have been happily married for several years. Sue was a home maker and Bill was in the army. As so often happens, Bill was sent over seas for 18 months in a foreign land. Due to the nature of his mission, he was only able to contact home once a week, on Saturday nights. At this time he was allowed to make a phone call to his wife and to also chit chat with his two children. To, catch up, if you will.
For the first few months, Sue was not happy that she did not have her husband around, but looked forward to the calls. They would talk for over an hour just catching up and telling each other how much they missed and loved each other. Sue always had a smile on her face on Sunday mornings and an extra spring in her step.
One Saturday night when Bill called, he said that he did not want to talk because he was tired, and wanted to get to sleep. Sue said that it was OK, told him that she loved and missed him and said goodbye. But she felt a big emptiness inside. The next week, Bill and Sue talked for a good two hours to make up for the week before.
Gradually, as time went by, the long conversations grew fewer and the weeks when Bill was to tired to talk grew more and more. Until, it was only once a month when they would get a chance to talk.
My question to you is this. How do you think Sue felt about this? Do you think she should feel unloved and forgotten? Or do you think she should put on a happy face and make the best of it? What are your thoughts?
posted by Broken Hubby @ 2:56 AM
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1 Comments:
Interesting story, Mike...
I do see your point, & don't ever think that your feelings aren't totally understandable & valid, but there is a difference here. Verbal & emotional communication is different than physical contact. Although, once again, we come to the fact that men do their communicating through physical means & women do theirs through verbal/emotional. It sucks - why can't we be made the same so things go more smoothly for everyone? I don't get it!
Anyway, at the risk of sounding repetitive, I think the key here is "compromise". Compromise being the act of setting aside one's desires for the sake of the other. And I'm not saying that has to be you every time. I do think that it's important that a woman understands that her man needs the physical reassurance from her that he is still attractive & loved by her. I just suggested what I did last time because it might be easier for her to compromise if she knew that you were doing the same...And, hey, I'm still waiting for those damn pictures!
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