My story today is about secret admirers. A secret admirer can crop up when we least expect it — even in a marriage.
In today’s story, Daniel learns that there are really three people in his marriage: Daniel, his wife Courtney and her Essentials Book. In His Wife’s Secret Admirer, Daniel ponders the secret to his marriage’s success in a world where so many relationships fall apart.
I should buy her flowers, Daniel thinks. But this is a problem. Will he remember that he wants to buy her flowers by the time he gets out of the shower and to his phone? He starts to repeat it to himself: Buy wife flowers. Buy wife flowers. Buy wife flowers.
Have you ever had a secret crush? If so, tell your story in the comments.
That’s my story. Tell me one of yours.
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Audio commentary: His Wife’s Secret Admirer
I don’t write many stories with male lead characters, but there was this beautiful (and long) article in Esquire a few years ago about studying love. It fascinated me. The writer, A.J. Jacobs becomes a guinea pig to scientists who are studying the effects of love on the brain. The catch is that he is the only long-term married guy in the study. And it turns out beautifully.
Love is crazy complicated. It’s messy. And, sometimes, it lasts beyond all the doubters.
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