The Stopwatch Wife
Language: en
My wife is severely obsessive-compulsive about time. In our three years of marriage, our lives have been calculated down to the second. Just because I was a minute late delivering a forgotten document to her office, she ordered me to stand outside the building and reflect on my mistake. I waited in sub-zero temperatures for three hours, only to end up in the hospital with a raging fever, where I stumbled upon her. She was sitting beside a hospital bed, fussing over a young man with a tiny scratch on his knee. This was the son of her "key business partner," the one she claimed she had to…