Name calling
As a way of helping people understand my cross-cultural engagement and move to Japan 9 months before our wedding, I liked to refer to myself as a mail-order groom. But now that we’re in New Zealand thanks to my wife’s working holiday visa, I think it’s much easier to think of me as a ‘trophy husband.’
You wouldn’t know it by looking at me, however. I don’t carry around a man-purse stuffed with a pure-bred lap dog. Instead, I spend my days deep in though, contemplating the depths of married life, for example, by trying to comprehend the paradox of pet names (if you’re my baby, and I’m your baby, then how does that work?).
She does let me out of the apartment on occassion. This
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