A boy was born to a couple after eleven
years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their
eyes. 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 the wife to cap the
bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally
forgot ...the
matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and, fascinated
with 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 just four words. What do you think
were the four
words? The husband just said "I Love You Darling". The
husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead.
He can never be brought back to life but there is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he have taken time to keep the bottle away,
this will not have happened. No point in attaching blame. She had also lost her
only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from
the husband. That is what he gave her.

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