“How Can She Say We Never Talk?” 

Written with Zivia Reischer

I think I’m a pretty good husband. I know a lot of guys get all caught up in work or business, but I’m very careful to give a lot of time to my family. It’s not always easy, but I make sure to be home for dinner almost every night. When I have to travel, I make sure never to be away over Shabbos. I try to take my wife out pretty often, maybe not every single week, but a couple times a month for sure. But she’s still not happy. She always complains that we never talk.

I don’t know what she’s talking about. We spend a lot of time together. We enjoy each other’s company. We talk all the time. How can she say we never talk?

In fact, I think we talk too much sometimes — she always wants to know every detail about every little thing. “What did he say, what did you respond, then what happened? Where did you go, who did you see there, what did they say?”

It drives me crazy. The worst is when she asks how my day was and I say fine. She gets all upset. “What does that mean, ‘fine’? What happened? You never tell me anything.”