A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large
celebration. All of their friends and family came to see
the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and
celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and
the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone
could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a
proposal. “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how
we can strengthen our marriage,” she offered. “Each of us
will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with
the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix
them together and make our lives happier together.”

The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate
room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed
them about the other. They thought about this question for
the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that
they would go over their lists.

“I’ll start,” offered the wife.

She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill
three pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little
annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in
her husbands eyes.

“What’s wrong?” she asked.

“Nothing,” the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages
to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and
folded her hands over it.

“Now, you read your list, and then we’ll talk about the things
on both of our lists,” she said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list.
I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don’t want you
to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I
wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.”

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for
her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

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