How [Not] to Talk to Your Wife

My father once told me, “I love you kids, but if I have to make a choice between you and your mother, I’ll choose her every time.”

Here I am sixty-nine years old, and his words are still firmly a part of me. I can hear my father saying this to me like it was yesterday, even though I was a freshman in college at the time.

This story came to mind because I …