A Successful Relationship
成功的感情
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 "Love You Darling."
一對夫婦在婚後十一年生了一個男孩，夫妻恩愛，兩人將男孩視為心肝寶貝。在男孩兩歲左右時，一天早上丈夫看到桌上有一藥瓶打開了。因為上班快要遲到了，他只告訴妻子把藥瓶蓋好放在櫥櫃裡。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，他被藥水的顏色所吸引，於是拿起它一飲而盡。藥水毒性很大，即使成人也只能用少量。男孩昏厥，母親匆匆把他送到醫院後，他死在了醫院。這位母親嚇得不知所措，不知該如何面對丈夫。焦慮不安的父親趕到醫院，看到兒子的屍體，望了妻子一眼，然後說“我愛你，親愛的！”
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.
丈夫完全出乎意料的反應是先發制人的。兒子的死已成事實，無論怎樣也不會死而復生了，埋怨母親沒有絲毫意義。況且，如果當時他花些時間把藥瓶收起來，這事也不會發生了。不應該責怪任何一個人，妻子也同樣失去了唯一的孩子。在那時她需要的只是丈夫的安慰和同情。那就是他所給予她的安慰。
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."
如果人人都能用這樣的觀點來看待生活，世上就會少了許多問題。放下所有的怨恨、嫉妒、不寬容的態度、自私以及懼怕，你會發現事情實際上並不像想象中那樣糟糕。“與同一個人相愛多次，你們之間才能建立起成功的關係。”
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