A man and a woman were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary.  They loved each other very much and the years had been good to them.  For their entire marriage, the man had always given his wife the heel of bread from the bread loaf.  Whether it was a sandwich, garlic bread or toast she always got the heel.

“Why can’t I ever get the soft middle of the bread?” she’d stew.  “Why does he always keep the best part for himself?”

The morning of their anniversary, he again gave her the heel of bread.  She couldn’t keep quiet any longer and with tears she said, “I thought maybe for our anniversary you would be able to eat the heel of the bread and give me a different piece.  Why do you always give me the heel?  I hate the heel.  I like the soft middle of the bread.

Her husband replied, “I’ve always given it to you because it’s my favorite part.”

He assumed that because he loved it, she would too.  She assumed that he knew it wasn’t the good piece and that’s why he always gave it to her.  They both had their own meaning which in their own eyes was true.

How many things in your own relationship have you been assuming were the truth??

We’re often not near as good at mind reading as we think we are!!