Greg Bales

Wives, Rate Yourselves *Updated*

In 2008, after two years of failing to make a child organically, we learned the doom Kathy had already been feeling for more than a year was justified: I was diagnosed with male-factor infertility. Our only real chance to move forward would be in vitro fertilization. We couldn’t afford it; we couldn’t afford not to do it. One way we tried to work through that diagnosis, our anger, and our options was to start a secret infertility blog, “Less Than a Million.” This post and what comments from 2008 that are attached to it come from that blog.—gb

I give you the “Marital Rating Scale: Wife’s Chart” by George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D., and trust you to tally your scores honestly and weight them keeping in mind that the original battery consisted of 100 (and not 24) items.

And for the record: It’s not quaint—it’s science.

(Via Mind Hacks.)

Update

The entire questionnaire—for wives and husbands—is now online for your edification.