A husband and wife came for
counseling after 20 years of marriage. When asked what the problem was,
the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem
they had ever had in the 20 years they had been married.
She went 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 over the course of their marriage.
Finally, after allowing this to go on 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 three times a week. Can you do this?'
The husband thought for a moment and replied, 'Well, I can drop her off
here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays,
I fish.'
