A man saw his friend holding his wife’s hands, even though the couple has now aged and are now well beyond what would be judged as the romantic fervor observable in youth. So he said to his friend: “I see you holding your wife’s hand even though this is not something very common romance among aged folks. It’s a bit strange.”
“Oh no,” replies his friend. “When I held her hand back in the days, it was for romantic reasons. Now it’s economic.”
“What do you mean?” asks his friend.
“If I let go,” answered the man, “she goes shopping, and I can’t afford that.”
The husband asked his wife one time: “Habibti”, he said, “what will you do after I die? Will you marry someone else?”
“Habibi,” replies the wife, “I would be too devastated indeed, and my love for you is such that I doubt I would be able to marry and live with any other man. I think I will just stay with my sister.”
The husband was obviously pretty pleased with this. What man wouldn’t be, right?
After a moment of quiet, the wife threw the question right back at her husband: “what about you, Habibi?” she said, “What will you do?”
“Ah, Habibti,” replies the husband, with a heavy sigh, “I too will be pretty devastated, I am sure, and cannot possibly replace you with another. I think I too will just stay with your sister.”
