A man went to the doctor looking completely exhausted.
“Doc, I need help. My wife gets angry with me over absolutely everything!”
The doctor nodded sympathetically.
“What happened this time?”
The man sighed.
“Yesterday, she asked me if I liked her new haircut.”
The doctor leaned forward.
“And what did you say?”
“I said, ‘I liked the old one too.’”
The doctor winced.
“Ouch.”
The man nodded.
“Doc… I almost died.”
The doctor thought for a moment and said,
“I have the perfect cure.”
“Really?”
“Next time your wife gets angry, fill your mouth with water and just swish it around.”
The man looked confused.
“That’s it?”
“That’s it. Keep swishing until she calms down.”
Two weeks later, the man returned to the doctor looking ten years younger.
“Doctor! It worked!”
The doctor smiled.
“Excellent!”
“Every time my wife started getting angry, I put water in my mouth and swished it around. Within minutes, she calmed down!”
The man looked amazed.
“But how does it work?”
The doctor smiled.
“The water doesn’t do anything.”
The man blinked.
“Then what fixed the problem?”
The doctor leaned back and said:
“Keeping your mouth shut.”
The man nodded thoughtfully.
“Doctor… that might be the most expensive lesson in marriage I’ve ever learned.”
