Wait a minute, hold the phone!
What about Bear? All you need is Bear. Plus, I bet Bear loves it when you take him out for BBQ.
If your wife was Russian, I'd say bust out classic Russian prose. That always worked for me. Sadly that doesn't work in the US. If you're in Russia though, it works like a charm
. Don't ask how I know this.
Pushkin or Lermontov works great.
update.
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poet...u_and_you.html
I checked out one poem I know in English, but it doesn't have the same feeling/meaning. Lost in translation.