Anne Tyler. Spool of blue thread (№ 413408)

Abby had one trick to those cases when Red began to behave like an old moron. She remembered the day she fell in love with him.
"It was a beautiful, windy, yellowish-green afternoon..." - she began, and everything returned to her - and this novelty, and a huge new world, magically revealed the minute she first realized that the man whom she had barely noticed for many years was in fact a true treasure. He was perfect, that's what she told herself. And then suddenly, through sagging skin, crumpled eyelids, sunken cheeks and deep depressions at the mouth, through nonsense, stupid stubbornness and the outrageous belief that simple cold logic solves all life's problems, a calm clear-eyed young man again appeared. And Abby again understood what an indescribable happiness it was that she had got this beautiful, handsome prince as her husband.