Woman & Home

MEN behaving SADLY

Does your husband wake up every weekday morning, lean across and kiss you hello before leaping out of bed joyfully, only to return 10 minutes later with a lovely breakfast and an unbridled enthusiasm for the working day that lies ahead? Well, read no further. I’m really happy for you both – yuk – but I’m afraid this feature is not for you.

This is for everyone else. This is for all those women who find themselves living with an increasingly grumpy, monosyllabic, middle-aged man. A man who heads off to work like an old dog heads off to the vet. This is for my wife.

There wasn’t an exact moment when I stopped being young and carefree, and became an old git instead. I didn’t resign spectacularly

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