After We Got Married, The Kids Would Follow Mom!

I was a husband on paper.

Before I married Eleanor, I signed a marriage contract stating that all my children would follow their mother’s family instead of mine. The contract clearly stated that I had no status in the household. The only difference between me and the servants was that I had to share a bed with my wife.

When my wife’s many suitors pursued her, I laughed it off. When my brother-in-law andrew and sister-in-law, Marianne, slapped me, I turned the other cheek and told them, “Good things come in pairs.”