"Jennifer, are you going shopping?"

Holding out his credit card, Charles looked at his wife, Jennifer, with a warm smile, knowing that she was about to go shopping for more clothes and shoes that she didn't need. Fortunately for him, he had stopped her just in time, before she left the house. What was a budget busting, sore point before, something that always erupted in an argument, Jennifer shopping for new clothes and shoes was a sexual pleasure now.

Already dressed and ready to leave, Jennifer stopped, turned, and stood still, as if frozen in a daze. Without saying a word, she looked at her husband, Charles, with a loving...