Relationships have their ups and downs. Sometimes you must make extraordinary efforts to make them work.

 

You ask your significant other for clarification so you can make things right. But the answer you get is bewildering: . . .

 

 

Do I Need To Say Anything More?

 

“Oh dear!” I screamed at my wife.

“I’m not sure what to do with the rest of my life.”

“Well,” she responded, “You’ll always have me as your partner in crime.”

“So, does that mean if I get caught, you’ll do the time?”

“Blame rests on both our shoulders, so if you’ll go along, that will be fine.”

“And if I don’t, will you out me to the cops, so the light in my world will no longer shine?”

 

“You’ll get what you deserve, my forever husband, the man of my dreams.”

“What I deserve is your complete faith in me, but you’re wavering, it seems.”

“You’ll have my faith, but first you must earn my trust.”

“So let me know how I need to behave, so I can do what I must.”

“You have to be perfect in every way and always walk a straight line.

I’ll draft an agreement you’ll have to sign.”

 

“I can’t believe what you’re saying and it makes absolutely no sense to me.”

“Then maybe our future together is clouding over and is not meant to be.”

“How can you say that? We’ve been married for more than twenty-five years.”

“Then agree to all my terms and conditions and don’t shed any tears.”

“But why does it always have to be your way?

Sometimes you have to listen to what I have to say.”

 

“What you have to say no longer plays a part in what I believe.”

“But we agreed to this relationship for better or worse, so don’t I deserve a reprieve?”

“A reprieve? Is that some sought of joke, when you did what you did to me?”

“Did what I did to you? I don’t know what you’re talking about? What can that be?”

“Look at my dead body lying on the floor by the door.

Do I need to say anything more?”

 

 

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