Dumb Mistake Number 4 Really Smart Couples Make

[Music] 6:30 at night husband comes home says hi to his wife plops himself down on the living room couch opens up the newspaper and starts reading meantime the three kids are running around the apartment pulling down the books knocking things over and his wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner steaming away I don't believe he's going to sit there he's going to sit there all the kids wreck the apartment he's not going to do anything she's getting heated and heated finally she stands up walks over to him points a finger and says all right mister up off that couch you're not sitting there any longer it's either you cook dinner or you take care of the kids but you're not sitting there any longer most women would say that she did something very smart maybe even Brave after all he's acting like a creep and while that may be true that he's acting in a very inappropriate manner she also did something that's very destructive to her marriage why because 2 hours later when the kids are already in bed and she's ready to settle down and spend some time with her husband she sits down next to her husband and for some strange reason he moves away but that strange reason is because for the past two hours in his brain like a tape recorder over and over that scene is playing out all right mister up off that couch it's either you cook dinner or you take care of the kids all right mister up off the couch all right mister up off the couch and over and over he hears that voice and he says to himself oh my goodness I married a drill sergeant and this is the fourth really dumb mistake that many very smart couples make they don't learn how to communicate and they forget the message that they are best friends Rim aim friends don't boss friends around friends don't act like drill sergeants friends learn how to get their message across and this mistake is one of the most egregious to remember and not forget that we're best friends together in this unit you have just seen an excerpt from the marriage seminar the entire seminar is available free of charge at the.com [Music]