Couples Pedicures: Save your husband the aggravation of having to search for the nail clippers and introduce him to a little regular pampering in the salon pedicure lounger right next to you. He will soon fall in love with the nail tech (aka pedicurist) rubbing his feet with all kinds of scrubs and creams and hot rocks. Don’t be surprised if he is then so intrigued by the pedicure menu and what pleasures having his legs greased up and wrapped in cling wrap and feet bagged in paraffin might bring that he suggests splurging for the $100 spa pedicure. Wondering what’s in it for you? Of course, you get the fancy pedi too. And more importantly, his toenails are now evenly clipped and filed and buffed. That means no more getting skewered by his rough do-it-himself clip jobs when he rolls over in bed and kicks you in the middle of the night. 

Buy A Bedspread Or Duvet Bigger Than Your Mattress: Worried it will drag on the floor when you make the bed? There are workarounds, and believe me, the benefits outweigh that potential risk. Does he shrug off the covers when he crawls into bed lamenting, ​“It’s too hot in here?” In the middle of the night, does he flip over and yank all the covers back and over him mumbling, ​“It’s freezing in here” and leaving you left out in the cold? Put a jumbo queen or king bedspread or duvet on a queen bed and you will have over a foot of extra coverage and a warm, cozy sleep. For a king bed, go to a jumbo king or California king. Problem solved.

Bring Him To A Writing Workshop: The first few times sitting with paper and pen he might feel awkward writing to the instructor’s prompt. Then automatic writing will cast its spell on him. He’ll spill words bouncing around his head happily on to paper and fall in love with organizing them into formation. At the beginning, he probably won’t yet feel comfortable standing up and sharing what he’s written at the open mic. Give him a few months, and he’ll sign up to read and take the mic at every workshop. Once he’s got the bug, he’ll start buying notebooks and pens and stashing them in every room in the house and in his jacket pockets so he can get down a story whenever the muse hits him. In every bookstore, he’ll tear over to the poetry section and stack up on chapbooks and anthologies. He’ll read them with his cereal and just before he falls asleep. And beyond the joy of seeing someone you love fall in love with a new means of self-expression, writing and reading poetry will have subsumed his scrolling through his phone. He will also now have a whole new understanding of why you have spent many 17-hour days keyboarding or scribbling to get down an idea and get it just right.