I taught my kids — not my husband — to ski. That is why I'm still married.

The author taught her kids how to ski.

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• I grew up skiing and dreamed of sharing it with my husband and kids.
• Teaching beginners to ski was far more frustrating and costly than I expected.
• Years of lessons, patience, and cold days finally gave me the ski family I wanted.

I grew up skiing. As in, we lived in the mountains and skied every weekend of winter, kind of thing.

At one point, early in our relationship, my husband looked at me...