VALUE YOUR SPOUSE
One day, during an evening class for
adults, the psychology
Teacher entered the class and told
students, “Let’s all play a
game!” “ What Game?”
The Teacher asked one of the
students to volunteer.
A gentleman, Femi came forward.
The Teacher asked him to write 30
names of most
important people in his life on
blackboard.
Femi wrote names of his family
members, relatives, friends,
his colleagues and his neighbors. The
Teacher told him to
erase 3 names that Femi considered
most unimportant.
Femi erased names of his colleagues.
The Teacher again told him to delete 5
more names. Femi
erased his neighbor’s names. This
went on until there were
just four names left on the
blackboard.
These were names of his mother,
father, wife and the only
daughter…The entire class became
silent realizing that this
wasn’t a game anymore for Femi
alone.
Now, The Teacher told him to delete
two more names.
It was a very difficult choice for Femi.
He unwillingly deleted
his parents names.
“Please delete one more” said the
Teacher.
Femi became very nervous and with
trembling hands and
tears in his eyes he deleted his
daughters name. Femi cried
painfully…
The Teacher told femi to take his seat.
After a while Teacher asked “why not
your wife? The parents
are the ones that nurtured you, and
the daughter is the one
you gave birth to ??? And you can
always find another
wife!!!”
Total silence in the class.
Everyone was curious to know his
response.
Femi calmly and slowly said, “One day
my parents will pass
away before me.
My daughter may also leave me when
she grows old, for her
studies or business or marriage to live
with her husband or
whatever reason. The only one who
will truly share her
entire life with me, is my wife”.
All the students stood up and
applauded him for sharing
this truth of life.
This is true. So always value your life
partner, it’s not only
for wives but husbands as well. God
has united you and
your wife together and it’s on you
now to NURTUE this
relationship above all.