That doesn't mean that married life in Japan is all "I have prepared your supper, Honored Husband," and "Shall I draw you a bath?"

I made sure the cardboard was taped back over the hole as it had been and I went back to my room and began to draw myself a very hot bath.

I would slosh home through the rain after class, draw a hot bath, and lie there in the bubbles reading the Italian dictionary aloud to myself, taking my mind off my divorce pressures and my heartache.