Pros and cons
Ned looked incredible in swimmers,Anais noted early on. However,as she came to observe over weeks,months and years,he couldn’t load a dishwasher properly. He was substandard,too,at vacuuming,dusting,doing laundry,hanging laundry,folding laundry,cleaning the bathroom,cleaning the kitchen and driving. What’s more,he’d become somewhat perfunctory between the sheets. “At least I look good in swimmers,though,” he offered the morning she catalogued,not for the first time,his many deficiencies. “That’s the thing,not so much any more,” she said,as she took a handful of his belly and gave it a telling squeeze. – Words by Paul Connolly. Illustration by Jim Pavlidis.