Someone sent me the below joke. I know of many English men married to foreign women. The most consistently happy, seem to be those married to Spanish women--why?
Three men married wives from different countries.
The first man married a woman from China.
He told her that she was to do their dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day, he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put away.
The second man married a woman from Italy.
He gave his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes and the cooking. The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done and there was a huge dinner on the table.
The third man married a girl from England.
He ordered her to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed and hot food on the table for every meal.
The first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher.
(I pause to say that, of course, violence is not funny to the people involved)
Andrew Woolley
Divorce solicitor