>>15197442companionship is stuff like. Wife knows what you like to eat and drink, and when you like to do those things. That you don't like to hear vaccum on weekends, so cleaning starts with other stuff till you leave.
You stay with the "old" for conviniance, the fact that you know she will reign in the kids, that she will not act the fool around your peers. And then there is the add respect, you wake up one day and your wife preped(or has been preping) your 13y olds confirmation, there a chicken roasted, hams made, soups, cakes etc You look at all those things and start to think "the old gal is almost like my mom, she cooks like a demon". Few weeks later your dead from work, all you want is to sit in your cave and slowly let the pain go away. She walks in gives you a carpatka and says "I hid it from the kids". but you really know you love her, when 5 months later you get a bit destroyed(contract went really well, and you will be renovating your kids school). Can't walk, even if you tried to. And the old gal grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you back home 4km, all on her own. Next day you wake up hung over as hell, and she not only sent the kids to school, and did all the regular chores, but she also washed your cloths ,from the mud, by hand so that washing machine doesn't wake you up. and you know that this weekend you will be droping the kids at her mothers(brrr) and you are going to town to buy her something nice.