“…let your love for one another be real and from the heart” (I Peter 1:22).
Some years ago the late humorist Erma Bombeck wrote:
It gets tougher and tougher to sell my husband on the idea of going out in the evening. If we’re invited to a party, he wants to know before we get there when we’re coming home. If I suggest a movie, he wants to know in advance if he is going to like it. Then, if things don’t work out the way I said, he holds me personally responsible. What has happened to my madcap husband, who used to bounce around a dance floor like a ping-pong ball and in whose bathrobe pocket I once found confetti? He watches TV until nine o’clock and then starts to yawn. People tell me I should be flattered that he wants to stay at home with me. Of course I am, but — let’s put it this way: I always knew a man’s home…
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