NeilSmith have to find a way to make my wife laugh
I have been self-centered for a very long time. I was driven by the the hunger to be successful as a designer and to provide my wife and family with a quality life style. My wife and I have been married for 20 years and during this time she always stood by me through thick and thin. One could not wish for a better wife. The business had many up and downs and during the few years I have had difficulty in coping with all the downs. I became depressed and started taking anti-depressants. Unfortunately I also started taking alcohol with the medication which was a recipe for disaster.
In the mornings my wife informed me about my anger and things which I have said the previous night to her or the kids. Every time my wife told this to me I was dumbfounded! I could not believe that I would behave in the ways my wife described to me. I realised that I was hurting my wife and the kids’ feelings, but did not know where to turn to for help. I was to proud to turn to anybody for help or advise until one morning my wife turned cold on me. I suppose she was in low spirits from loss of hope and courage. I do not blame her at all. I stopped drinking alcohol, gym every day of the week, kiss my wife good night, kiss her good morning, touch and compliment her several times a day. I listen to her, probably for the first time in our 20 years of marriage and realise every day how special she is and why I have married her in the first place. I can not bare the idea of not sharing the rest of my life with her! I started doing little unimportant things, leaving her messages, forwarding e-mail jokes, making up a bunch of flowers with a large number of small pictures of her face between the flowers. Suprise her with dinner reservations without the kids. After several weeks she remains despondent. I realise that all I can do is to give love and to do new things right and to allow my wife the space and time to become my darling again. I just feel so hopeless and whish I could make my wife laugh, because I know that if we can laugh together again then things will be all right. Only problem is that I have been too serious for too long and forgot how to be funny. Advise right about know will be most welcome!








