Dear Uncle Drago,
I think my wife is being very unreasonable. I met her two years ago at a lacrosse tournament. She was a divorcee and a single mother. We shared an interest in youth sports and got to know each other well. We married last spring. Up to recently we have been getting on well, but there have been several incidents when she has totally overreacted and flew off the handle. Last week I was helping Melanie, her daughter, with her science homework. I was marking the apogee and perigee of Pluto’s orbit, and as I was sitting on her left and am right-handed, I had to put my hand over her right shoulder in order to mark the diagram in her book. Just then her mother came in through the door and went ape. Women often complain about men not doing their fair share of the household chores, but then my wife tells me off for washing Melanie’s dirty clothes and cleaning her room. She tells me she will do the laundry in future and Melanie can tidy her own room. Ok, fine, no skin off my nose. Just now, she has told me off for letting Melanie wheedle a £20 note off me. When I asked her what she was talking about, she said, you know, letting her stand so close and fluttering her eyelids. I told her she did not flutter her eyelids, and that she was an exaggerating. It is not that I cannot see that Melanie will be an attractive woman in time to come. She has long blonde hair, coltish, long limbs, hazel eyes, a wide mouth with regular white teeth, like a straight up and down version of her mother in fact, but I just have no interest in her in that respect. What am I supposed to do?
Yours frustratedly,
Yellow Fang
