Readings Over Lunch

I just had the greatest lunch.
I was hired to be the birthday present for my client's good friend.
My client ( to protect her privacy, I'll call her Serena) arranged to have the birthday girl and another close friend of theirs, Clara to meet for lunch.
She told me what time to arrive so she could surprise her friends.
We all had a fabulous lunch at the new Masaraff in the Galleria.
I read their palms first. Then we ate an appetizer. Then I read their eyes. Then we ate a salad.
Then I told them each about their marriages and their husbands.
That was the most fun part for me. They thought the whole thing was fun., which is was of course, but I especially enjoy the challenge of seeing what I can pick up on.

I picked up that Serena's husband liked a marriage that was a partnership. He sincerely wanted her opinions and preferred to share responsibilities and decision making roles.

Clara's husband says he wants a partnership and in his mind they have one, but he defines a partnership differently. Another might use the word dictatorship for the decision making process. In his vision of a partnership, he and his wife take turns getting to be the dictator in different areas of their shared life. If she wants more input, he would want her to take the whole area of responsibility and make all the decisions on it. In areas where he takes the responsibility, he wants full say.

The birthday girl's husband thought of women differently. He treated a girlfriend one way, a wife another. Now that she was the mother of his child, he saw her differently yet. That made him more protective in some ways, but more critical in others.
She asked me to see what he was likely to do about challenges in their relationship, but what came to me was to ask her what she wanted him to do.