How They Stayed Married

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How They Stay Married

A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years.
They had shared everything. They had talked about everything.
They had kept no secrets from
each other except that the little old woman had a
shoe box in the top of her
closet that she had cautioned her husband never to
open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about
the box, but one day the
little old woman got very sick and the doctor said
she would not recover. In
trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man
took down the shoe box
and took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed that
it was time that he
should know what was in the box.

When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and
a stack of money
totaling $95,000. He asked her about the contents.
"When we were to be
married," she said, "my grandmother told me the
secret of a happy marriage
was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got
angry with you, I should
just keep quiet and crochet a doll." The little old
man was so moved; he had
to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in
the box. She had only
been angry with him two times in all those years of
living and loving.

He almost burst with happiness. "Honey," he said,
"that explains the doll,
but what about all of this money? Where did it come
from?" "Oh," she said,
"that's the money I made from selling the dolls."

A Prayer....... Dear Lord, I pray for Wisdom to
understand my man; Love to
forgive him; And Patience for his moods; Because
Lord, if I pray for
Strength, I'll beat him to death. And I don't know
how to crochet. Amen!"