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So today I'm going to talk about this one skill that every wife needs in her back pocket.

And I'm just going to start by saying what that is rather than leading up to it.

Basically it's to stop saying no.

Which another way of putting that could be to be agreeable rather than argumentative.

Now, if you want to get technical about this, there are actual personality tests that you can take to determine what your natural tendency is.

But you probably know, so I don't know that it would require a personality test.

But just to back this up a little bit and tell you that I know this from personal experience,

I can vouch for it.

I know what it's like to be in this boat and to have changed it.

So dramatically.

So I know that if I can do it, you can do it.

And it's probably worse for me because, number one, I come from a long line of very

argumentative type women.

And when I say argumentative, I just essentially mean,

women who, you know, don't acquiesce very easily. They are sort of challengers, I guess, that's a way of putting it.

And in addition to having been raised that way, I actually chose a profession.

Well, there's two professions, basically.

I was home for many years and I was in charge of my kids and you have to know how to say no

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