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But the truth is that man and woman were not designed to spend twenty-four hours a day in each other’s company. What underpins most successful marriages is the knowledge that irritation, if it arises, will only be short-lived since you will soon have an eight-hour break, at least, from the perpetrator because he or she will have gone out to work while you can bask in the blissful mental privacy of having the dwelling to yourself and thereby build up the reserves of good nature which will allow you to greet your partner’s return from the coal face with genuine enthusiasm.
As a woman from Northern Ireland, Mary is fully capable of adopting the ways of violence that characterised the Troubles. MARY: Of course, I’m never properly violent but I like to reach for some kind of spray product like Windolene when we have these rows. I come towards him spraying a fine mist in the hope of triggering an asthma attack to get my revenge. Naturally, he runs away. Once I locked him into Room One when he had done something really awful about which I felt so strongly that I continued to
It seems a shame that these stars which started their journeys so many millions of light years ago should be stymied from showing their glories a few seconds from earth by some council official in Swindon who is adhering to a street safety agenda and has consequently turned the village street into a Martian landing strip.
