Her and Him

I have never been married.  I have never dated anyone.  I have never even been asked on a date by someone.  It is hard for me to imagine being married to someone while having so many differences and even so many explosive arguments. 

To me, this didn't seem like a very healthy relationship.  That may be because it was primarily in her point of and because we don't get his idea of what is going on in this relationship.  Whenever he is making fun of her, does he think of it as just teasing?  They seem to do a lot of what he wants to do, is that just because either she does not want to do much or that they do what she wants on other occasions that she does not mention. 

By the end of this story, I felt very bad for the women and was kind of angry at the man.  I kept waiting to read about them doing something that she wanted to do, of him encouraging her, or something along those lines.  But then I read about how he reinforced her insecurities and possibly made them worse.  These two may have been in love but all I wanted was for him to get his act on straight and actually be kind to his wife and do some of the things with her that she wanted to do without any mockery or judgment.  Note how it wasn't because of him that she was still able to work but because of her other friends.