Best of Beth Ashley: Our first year of matrimony deserves another

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Beth Ashley

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2010.

It’s been a year since I married Rowland. We have settled in like any old couple, lingering over breakfast, watching TV tennis and Netflix movies and negotiating what we’ll do today or put off till tomorrow.

It has been a year of joy and surprises.

I had no idea I would despise his Persian rugs in my previously unrugged house. He had no...