Hard and Soft

I spent my first year of marriage terrified. (Sees readers look at title and glares. Nothing off color you ‘orrible people. Have a carp.) You see, I’d moved away from all family support structure to a country where — still to this day — things work so differently I have trouble explaining them to my parents.

We were living on very little and to make things more interesting, were making up for the dating we hadn’t done prior to marriage, so there were movies and dinners out. For various reason...