Translated…
My good friend, Jen was the most attractive of the group of us, cougars, although she’d constantly complained of age spots on her face, said she needed a makeover, but, there’s this air about her, that made her so attractive.
A few years ago, Jen’s husband was sent to Shanghai by his company, and back then, having a whore in China became very popular for men who worked away from home, we were all very worried for her, and started giving her our ideas. Some of us told her she could quit her job and follow her husband abroad, to keep an eye on him; some suggested that she toughen herself up, and stand her grounds on not allowing her husband to go, in the end, Jen disregarded ALL of our advices, and allowed her husband to fly solo.
For years, Jen’s husband returned back to Taiwan on schedule, and would wire his wages by the month into her bank account. She’d never picked up a silent call in the middle of the nights, and, there were no intimate photos of her husband and another woman. Jen does not use her charm to maintain her marriage, instead, she’d used her wisdom.
Jen, who was smart, knew that her husband was career-oriented, and keeping him here by force would only make him complain as he grew older, so, she’d chosen to allow him to fly solo. Doesn’t she worry that he may be having another woman? Jen said, “Surely I’m scared! But, we are usually the ones, scaring ourselves, so, I’d never grilled him on the phones, he’d worked hard until the wee hours of the nights, barely had time for sleep, and if I still grilled him like a prisoner, how can he possibly deal with it?”
I asked her curiously, “What tricks DO you have?”, she’d smiled and told me, “I’d texted him daily, to show how much I loved and cared about him, and, those words covered with sugar do the trick. And, when I’d called him up from time to time, I’d used those sweet talks with him too, told him how much I missed him.”, she’d told me in a lowered voices, “he’d disappeared for days on end, ‘messages read but nor replied’ became normal, but it didn’t bother me, I’d still texted my care and concerns for him regularly. And, I’d flown over to visit him as a surprise from time to time, to create that extra surprise for him. Actually, all the men loved this, just be a woman who plays coy with her husband!”
Once, I shared a ride with her husband, he couldn’t stop commending how wonderful Jen is, how she’d kept the house spotless, how much she put into caring for their two teenage children, how she’d called up his parents to show care and concerns, so he wouldn’t have any worries, working away in China, he’d told me, “I married the right woman all right!”
This one-hundred percent affirmation allowed me to understand, that Jen is a successful wife, and knew how to keep her husband’s heart with her.
So, instead of allowing her mind to run wild and free, imagining that her husband was having a WHORE on the side, this woman focused on taking care of things at hand, which was how she managed to keep her husband faithful to her, after all, a good marriage still takes a TON of hard work!
Life, the Obstacle Course 