A Successful Relationship

A boy was born to a couple after eleven  years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy  was the apple of their eyes. When the boy was around two years  old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late  for work so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the  cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot  the matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the  bottle and fascinated by its color, drank it all. It happened to be a  poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child  collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face  her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.





QUESTIONS:

1. What were the four  words?

2. What is the implication of this  story?





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ANSWER:

The husband just said "I Love  You Darling" The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never  be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not happen.

No one to be blamed. She had lost her only  child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and  sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.  If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective,  there would be much fewer problems in the world. Take off all your  envies, jealousies, unforgiving attitude, selfishness, and fears. And  you will find things are actually not as difficult as  you think.

"A successful relationship requires falling in love many times -----with the same person."