“I find it hard to adjust to you,” he said.
“But I want to be this way,” she said.
“I don’t want to change,” he replied. She said, “But I only like you a certain way.”
He said, “Perhaps I should turn that side on and turn off the other stuff you don’t like.”
“Would that be too hard, dear? Do it for me and you’ll become a better man for it.”
“But I’ve been doing that for years,” he said.
“Don’t think I didn’t notice, but recently I’ve noticed a…”
He was thinking, I better not tell her about all the other stuff that was going on in my bachelor days. He yearned for the comforts of his long lost remote control where he felt accepted where life would go back to normal and this little conversation a relic of a bad moment.
But they accepted one another, essentially.