Have you been grouchy lately? Have you been finding fault with your mate, instead of remembering the wonderful qualities that first attracted you to one another?

Attitudes are like weeds:
(1) They’re the enemy of every flower.
(2) They can spring up over night.
(3) If you don’t consistently deal with them, they take over the whole garden.

Maybe this story by Paul Harvey will help you to spot some of your unhealthy attitudes and deal with them.

Carl Coleman was driving to work one morning when he bumped fenders with another motorist. Both cars stopped and the woman driving the other car got out to survey the damage.

She was distraught, it was her fault she admitted, and hers was a new car less than two days out of the showroom. She dreaded having to tell her husband. Coleman was sympathetic, but he had to pursue the necessary exchange of license, registration and police reports.

The lady was so badly shaken that Coleman had to reach into her glove compartment and retrieve her documents from an envelope. On the first paper to tumble out, written in her husband’s distinctive hand writing, were these words: "In case of accident remember honey, it’s you I love, not the car!"

Before you overreact today, stop, take a deep breath, go for a walk if you need to, but get perspective. Remind yourself that the incident is temporary, it’ll pass, but the words you speak can leave memories that last a lifetime.