Relationships are fraught will all sorts of peril, from whether those jeans make her look fat to whether you're unknowingly embarrassing your partner in public.
It happens every summer: the sun comes up, the golf clubs come out. Guys greet each other on the course: "Your wife let you out of the house to play?" I never let my husband play golf, and you shouldn't either. I mean really, why would I let him?
You can get pretty loopy after waking up from surgery. Sometimes you may say things that don't make sense, or maybe you didn't actually want to say. This guy probably said the best thing he possibly could have to his wife.