If you are married, and if you have been married for a number of years, you know how marriage slowly reveals your and your spouse's small secrets.
Her strong aversion to seemingly small and innocent things (dirty socks on floor), her irrational joy over a compliment on her dress, her insistence on health over taste when it comes to food.
And she, of course, finds out, that you care more about sports on TV than about keeping a neat a tidy looking garden. At first it doesn't matter much, but with the years these small things grow. You may even be told to go home to your Mum to have your dirty socks washed!
The trick to a harmonious marriage is giving in and letting your wife have her way, or at least some of it.
For example, when we got married, I knew, that my wife preferred the side of the bed closest to the window. So did I, but - being a gentleman - I told her, that I preferred the side next to the door. And for some 20 years she has been sleeping on the side she likes the best, and I have been sleeping on the side I "prefer".
A couple of weeks ago, I was away for a few days. I came home in the morning, and I went into the bedroom to change my clothes. My wife was up, but the bed hadn't been made yet. I noticed that she had been sleeping on the side next to the door.
I couldn't help making a remark about it later in the day. "Ah, yes", she said, "I prefer that side, but since you told me, that you preferred it, I pretended to prefer the other side. That's what a good wife is like."
I didn't tell her the truth. It's too stupid - and its to late.
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