Ill-Suited and Lost

What could have possessed her you ask? 
Haunted by that old adage if not now
when presumably, for she was already 
past her prime so to speak and he was there
so she abandoned expectations. Unpalatable 
as his persona is to you, she rationalized it
was now or never. Now became you see
forever, and all these years later this
pleasant woman with an outgoing
personality and the widest of smiles
ill matched to the sadness of her eyes
remains with her choice. He is after all 
sound of body if not in mind but then 
as a painful introvert whose social skills 
never existed control is everything, his 
own and what he exerts with no effort 
whatever on his long-suffering wife 
who now that he has retired is directly 
in the line of fire when her husband is 
particularly morose, so disgruntled he 
must relieve his tension and she is there 
to obligingly pay the price of her long
ago bargain with the devil she chose.