"Honey," Charles reaches for your hand, only to cough again. "I've already told you I'm fine."

Your spouse has been overworked recently, constantly helping the neighbors, cleaning the yard, doing his job, and so on. You continued encouraging him to rest for at least a day, but he persisted on continuing with his work. He developed a minor cold after getting wet in rain water a few days earlier.

"I'm not going to die," he jokes before coughing again. "You're taking such good care of me.”