him. I was very unsupportive when my husband was going through a difficult time himself. Somehow, I had withdrawn from him. And he felt it very keenly. The mistake I made was something like what I wrote about in my book The Weekend Marriage: busy and stressed out, I acted as if I could put my husband and our relationship on a back shelf where it would just sit there like a package of Twinkies and never get stale or go sour.