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My bracelet

During the Liborifest in Paderborn we had distributed bracelets with the message "go4peace - building bridges in Europe". A few days after the festival, a younger husband wrote to me: "I now wear the bracelet all the time. For this you need to know the following background: We have identified two basic weaknesses in our marriage, my wife complains and I grumble too quickly. Some time ago, in a book suggesting behavior change requests, I found a tip to take a bracelet and wear it on the same arm for 40 days. Only, every time you fall back into the old behavior, you have to let the bracelet move from one arm to the other. So, my intention was clear: 40 days of not grumbling and a bracelet had to come. And then I received your bracelet as a gift. And the encouragement to "build bridges" could not have been better. So I wear it now and had already managed four days. Today, unfortunately, I failed and have the bracelet now on the other arm. So I count new and am curious if I make it.