Ambidexterity

“Very crafty.”

“Craft has nothing to do with it.”

“What would you call it?”

“We call it mano izquierda.”

“When your right hand doesn’t know what your left hand is doing. I call that sneaky.”

“No, not at all. Not underhanded. Like using your less-coordinated hand. Tact, not duplicity.”

“I don’t know what you mean.”

“You need to approach it from a different angle, you know?”

“You’re going to take his side anyway. I’m always at fault. He never complains, never has a bad word, of course he always gets his way.”

“I’m not taking sides, really I’m not. I want to help. I don’t want to see either of you suffer. If you suffer, my son suffers, that’s the way marriage is.”

“He hardly suffers.”

“Argh. He may not show his feelings – just like his father – but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have them. He’s strong-willed, pig-headed even, when he doesn’t feel he has a choice.”

“A choice. What choice to I have?”

“You both have choices: the choices you would make separately, and the choice you make together. Because that is marriage. Choosing together.”

“Compromising. Exactly. He doesn’t compromise. When it’s his decision, everything is hunky-dory; when I don’t agree, I’m a shrew.”

“A shrew! I don’t mean to laugh. That’s not true, nobody thinks you’re a shrew. Little mouse. Hahaha. I’m sorry.”

“So you want me to just accept his decision? To save our marriage.”

“No. Oy. What I want you to do is use what advantages you have. You’re a smart woman. You know the things he likes to hear. The way he likes to see himself, how he wants to be seen.”

“So I should trick him into agreeing with me. That’s what you’re saying.”

“No. Not trick. Show him why his decision is the right one and, more importantly, show him why it is the same as your decision.”

“Oh, that doesn’t make any sense at all.”

“Just use your left hand, darling. You’ll see. Trust me.”

333 words forincluding CRAFT (noun) 3 :  skill in deceiving to gain an end craft and guile to close the deal>

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