A heartfelt card, chocolates, a dozen roses or a romantic evening out on the town?
As long as you both feel loved and appreciated, the day was a success.
But in reality, we should never stop making our partner feel special.
And over a quarter of spouses admit that they compare their relationships to other married couples.
Many people do not like that, Dr. Baucom noted.
This happens when a prank humiliates or shames the person.
In this situation, that is the case, he shared.
The husband was not pulling a prank, as much as trying to shame his wife.
Whenever someone shames someone else, it assumes some level of superiority.
If I can shame you, then I have power.
Which seems to be the recurring problem in this relationship.
Dr. Baucom also provided some insight into why the husband may have gone the route of pulling this prank.
Which is why I think he resorted to a prank that was really his way of shaming.
Every relationship lives and dies by the connection the couple builds, Dr. Baucom added.
Being responsive to requests for connection is very telling to the health of a relationship.
Deny a spouses request for connection, and you deny growth in the relationship.
To me, this was not a prank.
It was a shaming action from the own feelings of inferiority in the husband.
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