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Honey, I'm home

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Earl lives in mortal fear of the day in June 2014 when he retires and has to share my routine and high–speed computer bandwidth.   Most people look forward to that time.  We have friends and family who love working or doing projects together—we're just not good at it.  We are a close couple.  But unfortunately, we are two generals with no soldiers. That means that often there is a power struggle and nothing gets resolved or done efficiently.  It just works better if we go to our corners and stay independent of each other. I remember hearing a quote about married couples, "For better or worse, but not for lunch".  I get it, but still look forward to lunch with Earl–he buys or cooks. Images of the "Bickersons" comes to mind, but we're not– really we're not .  Aside from loving and liking each other, we are not fighters by nature.  In fact, we both would go out of our way to avoid confrontation (not necessarily a good thing) .  We've come to