Marriage recommendations
Thursday, 21 June 2007I’ve been married now for one month, 27 days, 5 hours, and 24 minutes. And I’m still waiting for things to change. Not because I’m unhappy, but because I feel like I’ve been lied to all of these years by Hollywood and the media. People say that they’re both liberal hornets nests, but given the way they portray the nuclear family, I’d say they are conservatives in disguise!
For the past 2,352,240 married seconds of my life, not once has the Mrs. served me coffee and toast in the morning, not once have the kids been late to catch the bus, never have I brought home “the bacon” (though I haven’t officially been employed for the past six weeks), and M must have misplaced her pinafore, because I can’t think of any other reason she’s not baking loaves of bread or leaving apple pies to cool on the windowsill.
But despite all of these shattered stereotypes, married life for me is the good life. Looking back on how we got here, I’m reminded of all of the advice nameless husbands gave me growing up: “have children before you’re 30;” “don’t let your wife know there’s a baby changing table in the men’s room;” “one word: plastics;” “I highly recommend marriage.” So when a friend asked me the other day what I thought of married life, I almost regurgitated one of these catch phrases.
But I realized that I’m in no position to recommend marriage to someone else. The only recommendation that I can honestly speak on is marriage to my wife, and I’m not about to recommend that anyone else marries her! With so many people getting married for the wrong reasons, it seems reckless to recommend marriage to others. Committing your life to someone you love, on the other hand, I think is a fairly safe recommendation. So to each his own: his own pace, his own wife, and his own life!
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