Skewed View of Marriage Part 2

Background: My best friend needed help with a poetry class assignment about marriage. The prompt was something to do with a married couples' nightly routine. She added more to it, but here's my part.

Smearing the residue of another’s lips from his crinkled collar,

Slips hurriedly through the front door - late

Grabs his plate of the repetitive dinner, then makes his escape

Wife calls meekly after him - tone even, but eyes on the brink

Wants to hope this time it’ll be different, but her faith’s down the sink

He’s got work to do, he says - he’ll eat in the other room

Leaving wife and kids alone at the table to pick over their food