One spouse: You should respect my feelings. When I say I don't like your singing, then if you love me, you would respect the way I feel, and not sing.
Other spouse: How can you say that if I love you, that I would respect you and not sing, when by asking me not to sing, you're not respecting me?
One spouse: But, you're so loud!!
Other spouse: I was two rooms away.
One spouse: Well, when I get there, I want to be on the other side of Heaven, far away from you ...there should be plenty of room to get away from you then.
Other spouse: Well, according to your beliefs, you'll probably still be able to hear me.
One spouse: Well, I still don't want to have to put up with you here, or in Heaven.
Other spouse: In Heaven, there is no marriage, though neither will there be bitter feelings.
One spouse: If you love me, then you'd still change that about yourself. And if they ask you to be a song leader in Heaven, you will respectfully decline.
Other spouse: If you loved me enough to overlook how I am at one time, then why would love be now restricted by it?
One spouse: Certain things should change with maturity. And besides, I didn't know you were so stubborn ...maybe I was a bit immature myself, but I thought I could change you.
Other spouse: Maturity should not be a matter of personal taste or etiquette ...nor should you think that you can purchase a person and change them to what you want them to be.
One spouse: Marriage isn't purchasing a person.
Other spouse: Exactly ...but at one time they did offer a dowry, and many people still think of a marriage in monetary terms.
One spouse: Isn't that what God did, when He sent His Son to purchase us with His blood?
Other spouse: Yes, God wants us to change to be more like the image He created us to be ...but, He gave us a choice.
One spouse: I'm giving you a choice too ...to stop that singing, or find a tree somewhere to roost in, so you can sing to your hearts content like all the other squawkers that God created!
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