For twenty years, I begged my husband to get rid of our ugly brown couch.

Arthur always refused.

“It still works,” he would say.

“It tries to swallow anyone who sits on it,” I’d argue.

“That’s comfort.”

“That’s structural failure.”

After forty-two years of marriage, that argument became one of those little routines we repeated without thinking…. Continue Reading ⬇️

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