Message of the Day – “Yes, Dear”

We’re going to a wedding reception tonight and my wife bought a card with no writing in it and hands it to me.

I haven’t figured out what to write inside, but I did finish a note to groom Rui Campos on the back.

“So, I’m visiting a legislative friend (former State Rep., then, State Senator Ginny Macdonald) in her Springfield office about 1990.

“Her husband was in the office.

“To what do we owe the pleasure of your presence?” I asked Alan, a traveling salesman.

“Well, Cal, it’s our 50th Wedding Anniversary and I thought I ought to be with my wife.”

“You know, Alan, marriage hasn’t been the most successful part of my life. How do you stay married to the same woman for 50 years?”

“It was tough for the first six months, Cal. Then, I learned how to say,

“Yes, Dear”

It’s the advice I give every groom. It’s worked for me for almost 18 years this time around.

Some how, I think bride Elizabeth Robinson Campos might remind him of my advice.

Macdonald died this year. Alan preceded her in death.


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