Responsible for the Sunrise

Definition of "Marriage"
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My mother said to me, "Your father likes to think he is personally responsible for the sunrise. He thinks that if he didn't stand in front of the window every morning and supervise, the sun would never come up. What he doesn't know, " she went on to say, "is that he couldn't do any of it if I didn't get up first and make the coffee and open the curtains."

For the longest time that was the definition of "marriage" to me.

-Abigail Thomas, from Safekeeping: Some True Stories From a Life.