After 27 years of marriage, my wife and I are the same in many ways.

I stay in the shower/bathtub to dry myself off with my towel when I finish bathing, stepping onto the floor mat afterward, letting my feet completely dry on the mat before walking on.

My wife, however, immediately steps out of the tub and lets her dripping wet body soak the floor mat while she dries herself with her towel.

If I take a shower before her, my feet are dry when I step off the mat.

If I take a shower after her, my feet are again wet when I step off the mat.

After 27 years of marriage, it still surprises me as I take a shower after my wife, finding the floor mat is wet.

And that is one of the secrets to keeping our marriage fresh — the little surprises that I never let become annoying to me, discovering our differences all over again for the very first time.