So the next time....

....someone asks me how I managed without Mr.3 for so long I am going to direct them to this quote from Ian McEwan's Atonement:

She did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.