We No Longer Sail Together
Ryan Fairfax always knew how to get under my skin.
If I asked him to hang up the clean laundry, he would hang up the shirts but leave the pants untouched. Then, he would argue, “You never told me to hang up the pants.”
After dinner, when I asked him to wash the dishes, he would wash only a few plates, leaving the cutlery and the rest on the table for me to put away.
Whenever I was close to losing my temper, he would always say, “I did exactly what you told me to do.”
That would instantly turn my perfectly peaceful mood into a furious one, and we would end up having countless arguments because of it.
Eventually, I started making my instructions so detailed that he could not possibly find