A wife was in an automobile accident one day. She phoned her husband at the first opportunity. Now you know the very first thing he should have asked. Well, he didn't. Instead, he asked,
"How much damage did it do to the car? Whose fault was it?" Then he issued this guidance: "Don't admit to anything. Tell the policeman that you have nothing to say until you talk with your attorney. I will call the insurance company." Then she asked rather testily, "Have you got anything else to say?" "No," he replied. "Well," said she, "just in case you're interested, I am in the hospital with five broken ribs." Friends, there we have all the ingredients for conflict within a marriage. Some conflict is inevitable when two people live within the close confines of marriage. I have heard some couples claim …