As I am on day 14 of my 8 day love dare journey today I have decided to step it up a notch and complete the next 2 dares today. I have already taken the list of her bad qualities (described very awkwardly) and burned it. That wasn’t hard at all though although I suspect “burning” my own list of irritations will be much harder as I cannot pretend it doesn’t exist without dealing with it properly first.
For the second part of the dare I will be pointing out some of the good qualities I am thankful for in my wife to her tonight over dinner. She has mentioned this morning that she will prepare dinner tonight as last night we rode the take-away-train.
As far as the next dare (Day 9) is concerned it may require a bit more thought on my part. I will have to get back to you on this. I can however comment that in the last few weeks, after watching Facing the Giants and then Fireproof, and having some in depth discussions with my wife, I have noticed her run to the front door to come and greet me with a big hug when she hears the key in the lock (something that she rarely did before but now do about half the time). This does affect me in a weird way and I can easily see how a greeting could change the mood within our home for the rest of the evening after that. For as long as I can remember I have been taking my wife her morning coffee with a kiss in bed but it seems to complete this dare (day 9) will require going beyond that…