Right on-Dr. Phil!

I have to confess that I’m not a Dr. Phil devotee. In fact, I’ve never watched his show, but today a friend who had been complaining for some time about her husband and who had even gone so far as to suggest that she had made the worst mistake of her life by entering into a marriage contract with him, suddenly and unexpectedly changed her tune. She walked into my office grinning like the proverbial Cheshire cat, and when I asked her what could possibly have provoked that look of bliss, her answer was simply: “Dr. Phil. He’s amazing!.”

Now this is a very active and involved woman, so I was quite surprised to hear those words coming out of her mouth. As far as I know, she rarely watches television, so it never occurred to me that she would have called on Dr. Phil to solve her marital woes, but this is precisely what she did. And she informed me that it would behoove me to be charitable about this wise man and check him out myself. She even suggested that I might get a few pointers for my clients.

So, being an open minded (but I must confess, skeptical, woman) I looked at his web site, and was delighted to find some real wisdom about making a marriage work. He has a list of relationship rules that are pointed and actually quite profound. For anyone struggling with female/male issues (and who doesn’t?), this link will provide some bullet points worth memorizing and following. Check them out for yourself. These are keepers.
http://drphil.com/articles/article/53

And thanks, Dr. Phil, for putting that smile back on my friend’s face.