You people are always saying I give Steve such a hard time. For the record, he dishes it out just as much as I do. When you’ve been married 14 years, known each other for almost 2 decades and were good friends long before you became lovers, you tend to have a different sort of relationship. We’re also both oldest children. While our relationship does have many of the elements of long-time married folk, there is also an element that is hard to articulate. I see many couples whose relationship feels like it has this air of formality. Like there are things they wouldn’t do or say in front of their spouse. But we let it all hang out here at Casa Teixeira. There’s nothin’ we won’t say or do. We roll like that.

Last night I’m sitting in my chair, minding my own business and Steve walks in the room and says “I wrote a title for your next blog entry. I put it in WordPress for you already.” By his smirk, I knew it wasn’t going to be a title I’d probably use. And this is what I found on my screen: “I was a 30-something crapweasel”