While staying at my brother’s in Albany, California, I helped him unload the dishwasher, part of a multi-task involving barbecue, salad and roasted vegetable preparations. Under his breath, my brother Brian said, referring to the unloading, “My wife will give me points for this.”
I warned him, “In a marriage, you never get as many points for good deeds as you think you’ll get and you’ll always lose more points for mistakes than you think you deserve to lose, so that you’re always suffering from a point deficit.”
My brother credited me for defining the essence of marriage and man’s insatiable appetite for a protracted ego massage.
I wasn’t finished with my lecture. “Also let it be understood,” I continued, “that when you want Wife Points, you lose Wife Points and when you do things with indifference to Wife Points, you gain them. Therefore, the first rule about Wife Points is that you never talk about them.”
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