listen to your husband!
Sometimes accidents happen without rhyme or reason, but sometimes when people end up suffering they only have themselves to blame. Mary is one of those people, and if it were not for an attentive husband who literally forced her to take time off work to seek medical attention she would now be dead.“Looking at me now – a semi-invalid housewife, almost a recluse, who caters only to the needs of my husband and has no prospect of ever being gainfully employed again,” confides Mary, “you would never guess that I was once a workaholic.”
“I was a woman who had lived for work and never gave much thought to how my body works or how precious simple pleasures were,” says Mary, “and my husband was always telling me to ease up, but I never listened.”
“I owe my life to my life to my husband because had he not forced me to take a day off work to see a specialist I could have died from a massive brain infection,” says Mary. “So, as strange as my lifestyle is now, for a woman who was once a workaholic, it was forced upon me for a reason.”
“You see, being a workaholic I continually ignored a health wake up call until I ended up needing an operation in hospital that totally changed my life – and my marriage,” says Mary. “Becoming an invalid not only put a halt to my workaholism, but it also put my life into perspective.”
“I am now quite happy being a housewife and toying with various new hobbies,” says Mary, “and I appreciate my husband a whole lot more than I ever did.”
“To put work ahead of health – and marriage - is a serious mistake,” says Mary. “Allowing workaholism to stifle a health wake up call is going against nature – that is why it is a dis-ease – and not listening to your husband is going against the whole concept of marriage, too.”
“My key values in life now are good health and a happy marriage,” confides Mary. “When something in my body hurts I know it really does reflect something is wrong and I don’t discount it like I used to do; and when my husband talks, I listen, because I owe my life to him and because we have no children, he is all I have and he is my rock.”
“I may not hear too well these days,” smiles Mary, “but I am listening like I never listened before.”
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