Article: The name game can spell love // Romantic frivolity can help relationship

WASHINGTON Are you so sick of your husband leaving toothpaste all over the sink that you have taken a can of whipped cream and covered the bathroom with giant, white trails?

Have you ever shoved a banana in your wife's ear when you were a little angry, and you both ended up laughing?

Do you call your mate Love Rhino? Kissikins? Or Nerdman? Perhaps the two of you have the secret identities Fungus and Mildew.

Or do you call your wife Mommy, like the 76-year-old president of the United States does?

If you do any of the above things or anything resembling them, you need not worry.

You probably are an extremely healthy adult, reverting to childlike play in ways that greatly enhance ...

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