Part II - What your husband 'really' wants?

Get your mind out of the gutter, woman!
You've been married for a few years now, so the bloom's worn off the rose, the flush has faded, the fat lady's sung, and you can put away that expensive underwear that you probably don't fit into anymore anyway.

Coming back to the topic in question - 
what your long-suffering husband 'really' wants (other than that weekend in bangkok with his buds) is for you to be happy. And before you go 'awwwww...' let me tell you why.

Your man, like most men, is a very straight forward creature. 
He rarely complicates things with self-imposed expectations and convoluted reasoning. 
No, he leaves that to you.
Your man actually. honestly. genuinely. wants you to be happy. 
Because when you're happy, he's happy.

That's not sentimental claptrap or some rose-colored romantic nonsense - that's the distilled truth from over a decade of watching a classic male deal with multiple female neuroses(es).

Men live hard lives, trying to earn a living in what's obviously a crazy economic climate. 
Unlike us, they don't have the option of 'taking time off' whether for a mental-health sabbatical, to just to look after the family or to work on their bucket list. 
At least they think they don't.
But like us, they also have long, tiring days and their own crap to deal with - bodies that don't function like they used to, hairlines that insist on receding with astonishing rapidity, bosses that ride their ass all day... and wives that are a pain to come home to.

Yes, there it is people, the bitter truth. 
Women, especially unhappy women, or stressed women, are a pain to come home to. 
I wouldn't like to come home to me sometimes either. 

Come on, you know what I mean, and you agree. 
At your most painfully honest moments, you've thought it yourself - we can be the most unreasonable, cribby, just plain painful people to come home to that ever walked god's green earth.
Oh, we have reason, never doubt that - mostly self-created - but reasons nonetheless.
But is that any reason to dump those reasons on the most special person in your life, the moment he walks in that door? 

And we do, don't we, everyday in some way or the other.

You tell me.