Endearment

"Success does not always endear us to estranged spouses." 

Samuel Beckett said that he knew his marriage was over when his wife answered the phone and exclaimed, "Quelle catastrophe!"  When he asked her what had happened, she informed him that he had won the Nobel Prize.

And as the Ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord, and she scorned him in her heart.


David Wolpe in David: The Divided Heart