Marital Advice **** Sharing - It's Not Like In Kindergarten **** This is a simple story from Marital Advice to my Grandson, Joel  that many people have told me is one of their favorites.  I hope you enjoy it and find some truth in it. You learned as a child that it is good, proper, and nice to share with others.  This concept carries over to marriage, but it works a little differently than it did in kindergarten. Let's say, for example, that you like to occasionally eat a banana.  You realize that your wife is not as fond of bananas as you are and that she rarely eats them.  You stop at a convenience store on your way home from work and they have some great-looking bananas.  You decide to buy two of them - one for today and the other one for tomorrow. You get home and place your bananas on the kitchen counter.  After dinner, you decide to have one of your bananas for a snack.  Your wife asks, "Can I have the other banana?"...

MARITAL ADVICE ***** Your Worst Body Part ***** Think, for a moment, about all of the human body parts.  Each of them has the potential to cause a man a lot of trouble and grief, but there is one body part that stands head and shoulders above the rest. When God created man, he gave him two ears and one mouth for a reason - that he should listen twice as much as he talks.  We have it on good authority that He was specifically thinking of married men when He did this.  "Your mouth will get you into  a whole lot more trouble than your Willy ever will." Copyright  ©  2018 By Peter Davidson

MARITAL ADVICE It's Not Criticism - It's Training The basic premise of the book, Marital Advice to my Grandson, Joel, (stated with a little tongue-in-cheek) is:  "When your wife chose to marry you, she apparently saw in you hidden potential that no other woman in the world was able to spot, including her mother, her sisters, and her friends.  For the rest of her life, your wife will try on a daily basis to coax, mold, and beat that hidden potential into some semblance of the admirable man she visualizes you have the ability to become."   Some of that "training" is illustrated in the following quotes from the book: "Buy me flowers, candy, clothing, jewelry, perfume, a book, a card, or nothing at all . . . but do not ever buy me an implement of work* as a gift." *Vacuum cleaner, washing machine, lawn mower, chain saw . . .  get it? When your wife says, "Dear will you help me . . . ." she doesn't mean next month, ...

MARITAL ADVICE Mother's Day Gift-Giving Mother's Day  in the United States is in one week, on Sunday, May 13.  Most likely, if you're a married man with children, you'll give your wife a nice Mother's Day card and maybe even a gift.   The following quote is from a wife who had just received the best vacuum cleaner that money can buy as a gift from her husband on their first wedding anniversary.  No doubt her husband was expecting her to say something like, "Thank you so much for this wonderful gift that I can use every day and I'll think of you every time that I use it."  Below is what she actually said.                      "Give me flowers, perfume, clothing, candy, a book, a card, or nothing at all -  but do not ever buy me an implement of work as a gift.  Did you get the message, Bubba?" I'd say the husband got off easy.  Happy Mother's Day! ...