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My husband, the crazy, wonderful man I have been married to for decades, worked 14 hours straight, two days in a row. Which—how do I put it mildly—is completely insane.

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My husband, the crazy, wonderful man I have been married to for decades, worked 14 hours straight, two days in a row. Which—how do I put it mildly—is completely insane.

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If there is a heaven and IF my husband is considered to be invited, I know exactly how the first heavenly conversation will go:

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May the English, the British, the Americans, the Australians and Canadians, and all other native English speakers please forgive me, but you all LOVE too much.

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How dare I compare the two gentlemen you might wonder, yet that’s exactly what I will do. Perhaps it’s not so much a comparison more of a reminder of how relationships, marriages, love, and aging work.

The other night I watched him doze off in his chair. My husband looked tired – work had been crazy lately, and a lot had been going on in our private lives as well. My friend, my partner, my lover is getting old right beside me.

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We are both sick, nothing dramatic, it’s just a cold but this one is a tough one. It seems it’s going around and everybody has a hard time with it. It lingers and it’s hard to shake it off.

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In less than two weeks on November 7th, I will celebrate my 60th birthday and I am struggling. Not so much with the number itself, even though I don’t completely understand how it happened. Wasn’t it just a couple of years ago that I celebrated being 50 years young?

“He sits right across the table and eats his breakfast when I have my zoom class,” she said and I could almost picture it and felt instant relief. I am not alone, there are others like me. We both laughed on the phone, understood each other.

I finally realized the cleaning fairy will never stop by our home and I am left with all there is to do. I am getting older, the house is not getting smaller, and it seems I am constantly running behind. I feel like I spend all of my precious free time cleaning and scrubbing the house, and I am tired of it.

I wasn’t born to clean. I was born to live, laugh and create. That at least was the plan, and then I got married to a man with a selective vision. It’s fascinating how it works, one minute he sees just fine, the next he can’t see dirt or dust.