How My Parents Fell For My Husband

by Amy Sohn

The phone rang. It was my mother. “You know that conversation you had with Dad?” she said.

“Yeah?”

“Forget it. We’ll do the whole thing.”

“I don’t understand. What happened?”

My father was on the line. “Mom came home and brought me to my senses. I said to her, ‘How did you manage to diffuse such a tense situation so easily?’ She said, ‘The same way I’ve been doing it for 33 years. It’s called husband management.’” He got all choked up when she said, “husband management,” like he’d realized how lucky he was to be married to someone who knew what to do with him.