Marriage Enrichment

There was this fellow who commuted from Brisbane to Kalangur each day to attend the South Queensland SDA Camp Meeting. Amongst other meetings, I ran a course on interpersonal relationships that year.  He attended this course and decided to mend his ways to become more appreciative of his non-Christian wife who hadn't come to any of the meetings. When I next spoke to him, he related what later happened because on the way home from the Camp Meeting he bought a big heart-shaped box of chocolates and a huge bunch of roses. When he melodramatically presented them to her she burst into tears. After considerable efforts at consoling her she blubbered, "It's been such a terrible week - the fridge broke down, the dog twice sicked up on the carpet, the car got a flat tyre, our five-year-old flushed the car keys down the toilet, I broke my favorite teapot, and now you come home drunk!"
-- Lionel Hartley, The Link Bulletin, December 1995