Till Retirement Do Us Part
BBC reports a disorder called Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan.
For tens of years, the husbands devoted their lives to work and the wives tended the household. Then one day the men retired, stuck at home, and imposed some sort of passionless tyranny upon the household. Oi!
The wives could not stand their husbands. They developed weird conditions: fetish over teddy bears, obsession with young cute pop-idol, rashes, asthma, escaping to Hawaii.
In the affluent society, sufferings are often so petty in nature and so intense in display. In the days of war and famine, or in the realm of Ulysses and Penelope, things were different.
I shall look forward to my retirement. My wife shall not.