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Share Your Story - Examples
“As a psychotherapist, I deal with relationships for a living.
Dr. Payne’s work helped me understand the hidden rules many of my
patients struggle with on a daily basis. It also prompted many
funny conversations between my husband and me, such as about the
time he took me to a Laundromat during our courtship. Having group
up in an upper middle class family, I had never been to one and was
fascinated by it. He hadgrown up in a blue color family and had never
known another way of washing his clothes!”
Dr. Jill Murray, author of But I Love Him,
Destructive Relationships, and But He Never Hit Me
"My mother-in-law is a gem. We all recognized her gifts on many occasion
but none so memorable as Christmas or celebratory events. For Christmas,
my mother-in-law shopped at the fire sale. One Christmas, everyone of us
received a bath mat, each imprinted from a different hotel. They were
wrapped in last year's gift paper, not ironed, but reused. A far cry
from my own family's exchange of thoughtfully selected, carefully
wrapped with each paper crease just so, and a handwritten message on
the card that was as valuable as the contents of the gift."
"My favorite story of her gift giving took place after my husband had
been made sales manager for a manufacturing company. In recognition of
that event, my mother-in-law decided he should have some new suits.
The church rummage sale, it was rumored, got all the leftovers that
didn't sell at the River Oaks Episcopal Church sale. So, here she came
with two suits. We offered to take them home and try them on when she
put up a huge argument. 'No, no, honey. You can't take them home. Those
are $3.00 suits and I just have them out on approval!'"
Gretchen
Seguin, TX
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