How He Fixed It, Oh so Easily!!
My partner ordered, and I did the ‘woman thing’ (as he calls it), and sat in stony silence. Finally he said, “I’m sorry I didn’t choose the right lunch venue.”
My icy stare was all I gave him. (I was still in the ‘woman thing’ mood).
Then he took my hand and looked me in the eyes and said, “How can I fix this?”
No silence, no moods like I was displaying just pure patience and a desire to put things right. He kept giving me a long, sincere look and repeated the question.
So I began with what he had done wrong. As he likes to put it, I was doing the ‘woman blame thing’ now. He hadn’t found anywhere romantic, he hadn’t thought to listen to my suggestion, and he hadn’t noticed that he could have bought some flowers by the roadside for me. The list went on.
The poor man stayed patient, nodded his agreement and kept holding my hand. When I finished venting, he just looked at me and said, “I’m so very sorry. Will you forgive me?”
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