"How do you speak about the person you love?"
This was a question posted on social media by Australian mummy blogger and fashion designer, Constance Hall.
She tells a story of how she came to realise that how you talk about your partner when they're not there is extremely important.
She shares how she once worked with a much "older Italian man" whose "face lit up when he spoke about" his wife:
"He told me constantly how amazing his wife was, how lucky he was, how she was 60 and could pass as 30, how many men were jealous of him for being the one that got her. He said she could have been a movie star but she married him instead."
Hall recalls how surpised she was by eventually meeting the adored wife:
"And one day in she came. About 4 foot 5, in her high heels, with the worlds biggest blow dry and bright pink lipstick. We became friends and she told me she is a size 20, a grandma and still turns most of the heads she walks past."
Hall muses that she received the attention, not because of her physical features but because "she lived in a world of love and adoration."
"So often we see the worst in our partners due for to stress and resentment," she continues. "But it's never too late focus on what you love about them and start speaking about them with love and adoration."
To make this post even more heartwarming are the replies it received. Readers have commented on Hall's post with their own stories of love and partnership.
Some of them will have you in bits:
Just goes to show that how your partner speaks about you and be an indicator of bigger things.
