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BOWLING

I knew of a couple who, when they were first married, the husband wanted to still go out bowling with his guy friends every Thursday night. But he’d stay out late, and when he came home he smelling like smoke, and the wife hated it. “Why would he want to do that when he could be with me?!” But she gave him the freedom to go. She said “If you want to go, you can.” So he went. The next week he invited her to come along. And some Thursdays he just didn’t go at all. And eventually he stopped going altogether. He had the freedom to do whatever he wanted, but he chose to spend time with her.

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