I have always felt uneasy about the line

"I learned about life and I found a wife"

in Phil Coulter's otherwise superb song, "The Town I Loved So Well".

IMHO he should either have devoted the best part of a verse to his good lady, or else left her out of the equation completely. A throwaway half line just seems bizarre, to me.

Better by far to have written

"I learned about life, 'midst the trouble and the strife"