It's really difficult to tell if there's an improvement. The wayward spouses can be cunning and conniving. I was recently thinking about one time when the OM called my wife (using his wife's cell phone) because he'd dropped his cell phone in the toilet. He called to ask my wife what kind of smart phone he should get. (I remember that very well because I told my wife that he should get a stupid phone and my wife went ballistic because I was being so "mean.") Now that I think back to that, I suspect that they decided to use one of the messaging apps so that their text messages wouldn't show up on the phone bill. I don't think he "accidentally" dropped his phone in the toilet, I think he "on-purposed" it into the toilet. (And the toilet is a great metaphor.)
