BBC reports a disorder called Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan.

For decades in their marriages, the husbands devoted their lives to work and the wives tended the household.

Then, one day, the men retired, house-bound, bored, and quite naturally started to implement all sorts of passionless tyranny upon the household. Oi!

The wives could not stand their husbands. They cope in torturous ways: fetish over teddy bears, obsession with young cute pop-idol, rashes, asthma. The lucky ones simply flock to Hawaii.

Sufferings are often both petty and intense in the affluent society. In the days of war and famine, or in the time of Ulysses and Penelope, things were different.

I shall look forward to my retirement. My wife shall not.

— 2006. 11. 15