An old friend called yesterday and told me about a fabulous trip to Europe she took with her family this summer. She painstakingly planned the whole thing and it paid off. They did it their way and it was a memory for life.

She told me in passing  that afterward she said “thank you” to her husband for letting her plan it.

“it is so nice to hear someone in a long and  first marriage say this important phrase” I told her. (you know, with no tone, eyeball rolling, sarcasm but big time with meaning)

It reminded me of the five most important phrases the minister told the bride and groom to use frequently and throughout their lives together at a wedding I was at in June.

They were, and not necessarily in order of importance;

Thank you

I am sorry

I forgive you

Please 

I love you

Of course he meant to include #6 which is “I want you badly” but he was not permitted to.

This phrase is said throughout the trilogy of crap I am reading right now. Love the phrase, love to hate the book. Click here – as if you don’t know which book I am talking about that  I was reading at the hair salon last week. How cliché of me , right?