If We Could See What They Hear

By John Blase | July 6, 2012 |

There are those married to the type of

spouse who consider it their duty to make

sure their mate’s destiny becomes one

of humiliation, a day-by-day shame

and defeat, usually driving them to drink.

This type of spouse is convinced if you

don’t tell someone then nothing has

happened so they chatter incessantly,

apparently bamboozled at a young age

by some fool into believing that talking

is thinking.

Those who remain with this type of

spouse exhibit a somnolence, what experts

unfortunately label as passivity and

write books about; a criminal misdiagnosis.

In a way these martyrs are like the little

girl who lived off to the side for years rarely

saying a word so everyone decided her

odd. But one day her savior brother

gathered her up to a gentle physician

who took his time then said why this

girl’s almost totally deaf.