the officer's wife

Officer's Wife

 

 

A military officer's wife was close to a mental breakdown.  The psychiatrist prescribed that his wife be admitted to the local mental hospital.  The officer was stunned.  He didn't know how to help her so he asked for the advice of a pastor.  The pastor advised him to allow his wife to sit in his lap and let share her true feelings about him.

 

So he followed this advice.  At first he was really having a hard time and he wondered if it was going to work at all.  The things she was telling him were hurting him so much.  It was hurting him to hear her say all the things he thought he was doing to weaken their marriage. 

 

As she was talking, the telephone rang.  She was angry because she thought he wouldn't return.  But what her husband said to the person on the phone kept her from a breakdown.  

 

He simply said, 'Sir, could someone else take that assignment tonight?  I'm in the middle of a very important time with my wife.  It's serious and I really don't want to leave at this point'.

 

The military officer proved to his wife that she was of high value to him.  As a result, her mental condition stabilized and she never had to go to the hospital.