- December 16, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
My husband and I both like spending a lot of time in the outdoors – just not with each other. This is an important feature of married life where you ought to have some things in common but not all things in common.
It’s how his cheesecake is kept safe from my otherwise cake-consuming self and why he’s happy to shovel snow while I go for a run.
Neither of us has seemed to accept these clear differences, as is apparent when Charlie asks me to go snowshoe the property with him one afternoon. I don’t know how many feet long or wide it is, but it’s a five-acre geometrical shape.
“Like, just our property?”
“Yeah.”
“In circles?”
Charlie is always trying to get me to walk in circles. He has spent the entirety of our relationship building tiny circle trails all over our property. With great effort, many corners, and a wrong turn or two, one can cover almost very nearly an entire mile in a single lap. That was on our…

