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Many want to know how
they can be more romantic or get their significant other to be
more caring and affectionate.
Do you want to know my
secret?
My secret is Athena. If
any of you ever met her, you would realize that it would be
difficult to NOT be loving and romantic around her.
There are quite a few
traits that make me want to treat Athena like the treasure she
is. In this column, I'll discuss one of the reasons she is so
easy to love and pamper. Later on I’ll share more.
Not a Nagger
The other day Athena saw
my bath towel on the middle of our bedroom floor. She said
"you might want to hang up your towel or it won't dry out in
time for your shower tomorrow." When my clothes pile up
outside of the hamper, she sweetly says "it would really help
me out a lot if you put your dirty clothes in the hamper."
She was exhausted one morning and when Ashton (then five
months old) began to stir. She turned over to me and asked if
I wanted to "get up and have a little morning playtime with
Ashton". That was a much nicer way of asking me to help her
out than saying "Why am I the one who always gets up early to
take care of YOUR son. I think it is YOUR turn for a change."
Athena always thinks of
nice ways to ask me to help out or to stop doing something
irritating. It is far more effective than if she nagged about
it.
In most relationships a
polite and sincere request gets much greater results than if
you yell, nag or complain. While some men and women do
respond to incessant nagging, they do so to get you to shut up
and are resentful for the way you behaved.
I can't take credit for
being a super romantic. Athena's kindness, gentleness and
thoughtfulness made me this way. TOP
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