A few years ago my brother got married. I must pay tribute to him, he did not give up for a long time, he was already over thirty! He always lived for himself. To the remarks of friends, my brother always answered like this:
– “I have my own apartment, I have no problems with money, why do I need an anchor around my neck in the form of a wife? You know how good it is for me alone, and I’m not bored at all, I have a cat! We live with him and know no grief, and women are what? They come and go, and the cat is always there! But the brother’s turn came: he was caught in a trap set by gentle women’s hands. The girl was cunning: for a long time she created an impregnable appearance, awakening the hunting instinct. They met right on the highway, where the girl tried to stop the hitchhiker. The 28-year-old girl is divorced, and fortunately the guy has no children. He just drove her to the city.
They met again, everything started spinning, the story is quite banal. The girl spent several nights at his place, then somehow unnoticed, first her toothbrush appeared in the bathroom, then various small things around the apartment. Before he knew it, they were already living together. Once, lying on the couch, warmed up after a hearty dinner, they chatted about various trifles, when suddenly the girl abruptly sat up and said:
– Do you remember you once hinted at a wedding? I thought a lot about it, and you know… I would probably agree! The guy, no matter how hard he strained his memory, could not remember such conversations. However, given the confusion from the plot twist, he could not really deny. No, of course he tried, but the girl understood his indecipherable mumbling in her own way and without letting him recover turned the conversation to wedding planning.
He physically felt like he was sinking in this quagmire, but he had no strength to resist, and no weighty arguments either. So one bachelor on the planet became less. The first year of family life was almost cloudless. If you do not take into account the small claims that the spouses periodically presented to each other. She did not like that he sometimes stayed at work for a long time. His wife upset him by the fact that with enviable regularity she talked on the phone with her ex-husband, discussing some far-fetched problems. She responded to his indignation by saying that she was helping him solve his problems, because he should be kinder to people. Once, the guy celebrated the anniversary of the head of the company at work. Waiting for the arrival of his wife, he dozed off on the couch, but soon woke up when he heard the conversation:
– What a cat you are. Mustachioed, soft, sleeping all day …
Everything’s fine, but you’re stupid, just like your daddy. You just can’t do anything but sleep. Except… you’re even smarter than him! Though you can’t talk, but you understand everything. The cat twitched his tail and yawned
– There! I told you that you understand everything! And this … stupid just … does not want to understand anything! Well, how long can you live like this! The guy listened to this conversation until he felt anger boiling in him, wanted to get up and tell his wife everything he thought about her, but the conversation suddenly turned in a different direction.
– He came home drunk again, the smell is all over the apartment, it will not go away! I see you’re not happy either. Well, who would like that? I can’t stand to see him! Every day I regret that I got married! He seemed normal, but he pretended to be a bastard. The ex is better than him! He doesn’t drink, earns a lot of money, why did I leave him?
So he cheated a couple of times, who doesn’t? But what gifts he gave me later! He apologized beautifully! And he’s still begging me to come back! Tell me, what should I do? Give me some sign! You decide my fate, everything is in your paws!
But then the door suddenly opened and a formidable figure of a man appeared in the opening. He took the cat in his arms and looked at his wife from under his forehead and said:
– If it seems to you that I dreamed of marrying you, it is far from it! I don’t need a wife at all! It was you who got into my apartment and life without soap! And now you’re disgusting me too. And tomorrow file for divorce, I’ll sign everything!
She burst into tears, trying to apologize and blame the guy for his callousness and unsuitability. But the brother was categorical, and despite his soft nature, he withstood the onslaught and drove the insolent woman out of the door. Already from the entrance the girl called a taxi and drove off in an unknown direction.
