A Successful Relationship

　　A boy was born to a couple after 11 years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eye. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot about the matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and fascinated by its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.

　　QUESTIONS:

　　What were the four words? What is the implication of this story?

　　ANSWER:

　　The husband just said, “I Love You Darling.” The husband’s totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened. No one is to be blamed. She had lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her. If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiving attitude, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think. “A successful relationship requires falling in love many times — with the same person.”

　　一對夫婦在婚后十一年生了一個男孩，夫妻恩愛，男孩自然是二人的寶貝。男孩兩歲的某一天，丈夫在出門上班之際，看到桌上有一藥瓶打開了，不過因為趕時間，他只揚聲妻子把藥瓶收好，然后就上班去了。妻子在廚房忙得團團轉，完全忘了丈夫的叮囑。小男孩看到藥瓶走了過去，他覺得好奇，又被藥水的顏色所吸引，于是拿起它一飲而盡。藥水成份厲害，即使成人服用也只能用少量。男孩服藥過量昏厥，被母親送到醫院后，已經無力回天。妻子被事實嚇呆了，不知該如何面對丈夫。心情緊張的父親趕到醫院，得知噩耗非常傷心，看兒子的尸體，望了妻子一眼，然后就說了四個字。