“Because being a good husband, as every woman who has beaten her head against her partner’s incomprehension knows, can’t just mean not being a ‘bad’ one. It just isn’t about not beating up your wife, not cheating on her, or not endangering your children’s lives. A healthy, happy, loving relationship needs positive words and actions —and not words and actions that are wrenched from you after seventeen reminders, but voluntary things you do because you want to be in the relationship.
Being there for someone else can’t just be a theoretical thing in the back of your head, which you’re sure you’ll do when the time comes. Being there in a relationship means being there every day. Not just because it keeps it alive and well, but because once you stop doing it every day, you’ll find you don’t even notice when the time comes.”
—Trisha Gupta.
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