When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
