Small Thoughts on Marriage
February 22nd, 2023 by G.
1. You can make the bed together; the wife can make it; the husband can make it, maybe he’s learned that crisp military style or something; the wife can make it some of the time and the husband can make it some of the time; some of these options are better than others; but they are all hugely better than one spouse making their half and leaving the other half for the other.
2. (a) For men, having good tools and being willing to ask male relatives and neighbors can substitute a lot for not being handy. (b) Yes, it can be daunting. If it weren’t, she wouldn’t appreciate you for taking it on. (c) Deciding you can’t fix it after trying isn’t a failure. Even the extremely competent guys you imagine in your head get to that point a lot.
Comments (3)
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February 22nd, 2023 07:48:41
E.C.
February 22, 2023
Your point 2 is very true. One of the best tools my dad has is ‘I know a guy’, along with the always popular ‘well, let’s do a little horse trading and see what we can come up with’. Honestly, my dad’s network is scary huge, considering the man can’t even run a smartphone half the time.
SoG
February 22, 2023
And sometimes you realize that while you sometimes should share a bed, your sleeping habits are too incompatible to actually sleep in the same bed at night.
Our marriage actually improved a lot (I mean, a lot) when we started sleeping in separate rooms. Mainly because we both get a lot more sleep that way.
G.
February 23, 2023
It worked for the Churchill’s