For A Month, I Did Everything My Wife Said

This has been A.J.'s best experiment in, well, ever. For the sake of America's women, I hope this experiment starts a movement and other couples try it. Although if it does, I imagine A.J. will be hanged in effigy by the married men of America. Sorry, sweetie.

A.J.'s plan was that I'd eventually get bored of being in total charge and I'd be begging for his old self to come back. Guess what? That didn't happen. Maybe it would happen someday, but it would take a long, long, long time. I mean, husbands were in charge for thousands of years, right? I could last that long.

I do think that A.J. now appreciates me more. When I made the list of all the things I do, it was a revelation for him. I honestly believe he thought he was doing almost as much of the household management—that it was like 55/45 when in reality it was 80/20. I told him, it's going to be hard to get back to his old 80/20 ways now that the imbalance is so clear.

I do believe that the experiment was good for our marriage. It made A.J.—and me—realize that it's not always about the big gesture. Marriage is an accumulation of the little gestures. The little gestures are the ones that count.

A.J. Jacobs is the editor at large at Esquire magazine and the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Know It All and The Year Of Living Biblically.