After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful, tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the 35 years they had been married. She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured over the course of their marriage.

Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk, and asked the wife to stand. He embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched with a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down in a daze.

The therapist turned to the husband and said, "Your wife needs this at least three times a week. Can you do this?"

The husband thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I can drop her off on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish."