They watch it through the window from their bed. When she reads this, the wife feels very very sorry for the husband. In America, the participating partner is likely to spend an average of 1,000 hours processing the incident with the hurt partner. It is in a footnote about the way different cultures handle repairing a marriage after an affair. There are many other icky things, but there is one thing in the book that makes her laugh out loud. In the book, he is referred to as the participating partner and she as the hurt one. The whole experience of reading it makes her feel compromised, and she hides it around the house with the fervor another might use to hide a gun or a kilo of heroin.

She takes the subway three neighborhoods away to buy it. The wife is advised to read a horribly titled adultery book. Why couldn't the Buddhist vacuum in corners? Before excusing himself to go flirt with someone else. You're a truth bomb, a cute guy said to her once at a party. The undergrads get the suicide jokes, but the ones about divorce go right over their heads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. How has she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. The wife can't help but notice that she never has to correct other students in this particular way.ĭo not instruct the head! The head is not being instructed! Sometimes when the wife is trying to do positions, the yoga teacher will single her out for instruction.

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