How to Manage Your Fear

Ric has a dark sense of humor, is clever, and is good with words. These are good things if you’re his friend and want to have a fun conversation. These are bad things if you’re his spouse and are trying to have an argument with him. Once, when discussing an argument he and his (then) wife had the night before, someone referred to Ric’s sense of humor as a “tremendous power” that he needed to “control.”

It was meant as criticism, but he took it as a huge compliment. He told me about it, and we started making jokes about fitting him with a muzzle designed like the X-Man Cyclops’s visor.

To this day, our shorthand for telling someone off is to “open the visor.”

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