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"After 10 years of marriage, my husband said the words that I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to hear: &amp;quot;My wife is always right.&amp;quot; As is often the case with life, there&amp;#039;s a catch to his comment. He wasn&amp;#039;t necessarily talking about my opinion, but instead where I am sitting every day when he comes home from work. Yup, our office (and my trusty little companion - also known as my computer) is situated just outside the entryway. Hence, when my handsome man enters the door at the end of the long day, he can set down his computer and look right. That&amp;#039;s where I always am! Although we laugh about my computer addiction, I&amp;#039;m well aware of the boundaries I must place on them. Lap tops are great for my income, but lap dances are great for my sex life. Touching the buttons are fabulous for contact with friends across the world, but touching Rex&amp;#039;s buttons is integral to intimate connection with the person that matters most. As I sit right this moment in my newly crowned position of &amp;quot;always being right&amp;quot; (as well as realizing how badly this office needs some funky under-the-desk storage boxes as well as some artwork other than Pipstink&amp;#039;s craft project) I am again reminded how much Rex and I have grown in the past few months. We&amp;#039;ve each allowed the other to take the lead in the areas we are best at. Our group counselor told us a few years ago, &amp;quot;You two are both extremely ambitious. This works wonderfully for you careers, but it can be a bit difficult in a marriage.&amp;quot; He went on to add, &amp;quot;Take a platoon of soldiers. Who would they listen to if two generals were running the show? Co-captains are fine, but it works much better if you both have a plan of attack for your mission.&amp;quot; I don&amp;#039;t know about you readers, but I never really thought of my marriage as a &amp;quot;mission&amp;quot; before. Neither had Rex. But when we both sat down and analyzed what was most important to us, our lives became a lot easier. On top of our list was a stable home for our children. It also included time for us as a couple as well as adequate moments devoted to independent pursuits of happiness. (In our case, these hobbies couldn&amp;#039;t be more different, but with enough time together as a couple, we cherished our alone time rather than fought each other..... A strange concept, I realize.) Bottom line: Once we knew of our group and personal goals, we didn&amp;#039;t feel the need to be dictators as much. And something as inorganic as setting up marriage goals became organic. And orgasmic in certain cases. (But in those instances it became less of a mission goal and the case of a missionary style one - among other strategic maneuvers.) What about you? Are you both on the same page? If not, do you see the value in coming up with some goals (so that other things come up?) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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