Real Life Stories - October 2007 (New!!!)

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From Sara S:

Dear Elise, I came across your wonderful site about a year ago and have found it truly inspirational. I particularly enjoy reading the Real Life stories and thought that you and your readers might be interested in the story of how I took control of my man and my marriage.

In 1982, following a disastrous first marriage and an extremely unpleasant divorce, I went to work as a secretary at a local engineering firm and it was there that I met my husband to be, James. I could tell at once there was something different about him, today we would say he lacked social skills but back then we just called it being shy, he had the sort of impeccable good manners that I thought had gone out with the ark, unlike most of the others who were either brusque to the point of rudeness or all wandering hands and cheesy chat up.

He always said please and thank you, and held open doors for even the most junior female staff, he even apologized for my mistakes saying things like. "I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to correct one or two errors. Because this is a specification and might later become a contractual obligation it has be spot on you see, sorry about that. Don’t worry, you’ll soon get the hang of things," before slinking off looking embarrassed.