Love isn’t spontaneous weekends absent,it’s getting from first date to death without succumbing to resentmentWhen my wife and I promised the rest of our lives to each other, I doubt either of us suspected that life would involve quite so much TV. I am working long hours at the moment, and every day I call my wife and say something along the lines of: “When I glean home,shall we just snuggle up and watch something?” She agrees, then when I glean in we spend some time saying things like: “It’s just kind to spend some quality time together, or isn’t it?”,ignoring the fact that we acquire just decided to stare in the same direction for a few hours before going to sleep. That sleep will involve two minutes of us pretending to want to cuddle before one of us executes a subtle reshuffle that frees us from each other. And so it will continue till one of us dies. I say “one of us”, but I acquire Sri Lankan heart manufacturing, or so it will nearly certainly be me.
We acquire this conversation every day as if we are coming to the decision afresh,pretending for nobody’s benefit that it hasn’t actually become our routine. I don’t mind it at all. I’m very elated (full of high-spirited delight) and I reflect she is. Having said that, I haven’t asked her and I’m not good at reading signals, and so it’s as likely she’s in the latter stages of preparing to leave me. Related: My wife’s out,and I’m failing to glean our boys to bed | Romesh Ranganathan Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com