A Happy Marriage

by A.R. Torre

Other couples leave their dishes out, expecting the spouse to be their maid,

Gio did this to me

My husband always remembers things. Every anniversary, every to-do item, every misstep.

Must be nice

Is that how you treat someone you love?

Yea Gio? Is it?

She always falls asleep before me and snores like a broken chain saw, with lots of sputters and starts.

I thought that my first heartbreak had broken the organ so badly that it was permanently scarred over, impossible to reinjure in such traumatic fashion.

When he stares at me, I can tell he really is listening to me, and I’m not sure that any man has ever really stopped talking long enough to hear what I have to say.

If I am watching or listening to something, I pause it when she comes in. If I’m on a phone call, I end it to accept her call. If I’m with a patient, I step out if she needs me. There is nothing in the 134world more important than the other person. Everything else can wait. Anything or anyone else can be inconvenienced for our relationship. Priorities are the difference between failure and success.

This is a situation that should have never happened, and all due to her actions.

I ruined my relationship with Raie

We do not use childish techniques like the silent treatment.

Like Giovanni

there is something about a man’s public profession of love that is incredibly sexy.

Dr. Joe just pimp-slapped his nurse, who is handcuffed to the chair and supposedly tried to kill me last night and is also claiming to be my mom?

See, that’s why I can’t find love. I pick assholes. Assholes dressed up to look like sweethearts.

I’ll take a broken version of us over a life without him.

Is this what I'm doing