How can I prove I love you? And, just as importantly, how can you prove you love me? Easy, the way people always have. We can show we’re a great big family by giving each other comfortable footwear.

“Push that baby to the wall,” Dr. Leonard orders as Barney, my husband, stares somewhere between that wall and me five feet from where he stands. My quivering legs tent a blue sheet. The wet stirrup, ...