| Message | the month our house was paid off. We had had difficulties before, but being that close to the brink was a surprise to me. I'm no expert, but I doubt if good relationships are built on poor communication and being disengaged. Nor do they thrive on assuming what one's partner thinks and feels. In retrospect, I think my marriage failed because, from my side, there was too much "me" in it and not enough "us." In other words, because  my  priorities were mostly outside the marriage, my wife felt she wasn't important. And then, for her, the inevitable question was, "Why be married?" Now that I think about it, maybe the 240Z did have something to to do with....
 
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