Things I have learned while being a husband. Volume 2

Expectations are relentless and are, for lack of a better word, a b****. The expectations I have placed on myself, which my wife has placed on herself and the ones we put on each other have caused no shortage of hurt, pain and disappointment. How much easier would it be if those were replaced with something else?

Things I have learned while being a husband. Volume 1

Total abdication of responsibility to one's wife does not go over well.

Nor should it. Yet it is darkly funny how hard I will try to defend an indefensible action.