THE COUNSELOR

Marriage Counseling

After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When
asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful
tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had
been married.

On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness,
feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she
had endured.

Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the
therapist got up, walked around the desk and after asking the wife to
stand, embraced and kissed her passionately as her husband watched with
a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a
daze. The therapist turned to the husband and said, 'This is what your
wife needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?'

'Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on
Fridays, I fish.'