Today’s Arlo ‘n Janis is on the familiar theme of husbands not listening to their wives.
I get particularly deaf during the holidays and this week even my daughter said to my wife, “Dad doesn’t listen.”
I’m generally okay when the subject and tone are serious. But when it involves instructions or Uncategorized descriptions or upcoming appointments or most any kind of social chatter and the setting is mundane — house or car — then I’m bad, amazing even myself. My wife’s pretty tolerant, unless I’m running a deficit in our emotional bank account. Then she gets offended.
I’m thinking there’s a simple two-person solution to this for a happily-married couple like us, but I’m stuck on what it might be.