Clare & Henry

Henry: When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspapers in question is a week old; that I am not the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each others musical excesses. (How can Clare listen to Cheap Trick? Why does she like The Eagles? Ill never know, because she gets all defensive when I ask her. How can it be that the woman I love doesn't want to listen to Musique du Garrot et la Farraille?) The hardest lesson is Clare's solitude. Sometimes i come home and Clare seems kinda irritated; I've interrupted some train f thought, broken into the dreamy silence of her day. (Niffenegger, 275-276).

This quote is Henry talking about his new life married to Clare. It sounds much different than their relationship before because of the habits and different information comes out when you spend more time with someone. Henry finds out that it becomes a problem when Clare does not like the fact that they eat the same thing three days in a row and also their musical differences. This quote shows that their relationship is a normal relationship and not a fantasy.