And this is embarrassing – Michelin’s rating system only awards one to three stars. I conflated them with other rating systems that use a one to five scale. So those of you who said you’ve been to a Michelin four star restaurant in the poll are mistaken. The last time I checked I don’t think anyone checked the five star option.
I paused about that before voting “no.” I do think there would be circumstances where I would do it, but those would be so rare that I thought “no” was a more accurate answer.
Two of my best friends from college have been married to each other for about 20 years now; I’m not privy to all of the reasons why they got married (and why they’ve stayed married), but romantic love wasn’t one of them.
They’re good friends with each other, but she always longed for romance and romantic love, while he is asexual, and simply doesn’t feel that way about her. For most of their marriage, she’s had a long-term romantic partner/boyfriend (which the husband seems to be OK with), and for the past five or so years, that boyfriend has lived with them. So, there are definitely some complex dynamics going on there.
I would only marry someone I respected and loved, but it wouldn’t have to be romantic. I have often thought if my husband dies and I ever do meet someone, I would prefer to marry a friend instead of a lover. What I have with my husband cannot be repeated and I don’t see the sense in trying.
I could focus on the distinction between the verb “to consume” and the noun “consumer.” Or I could point out that, as far as I know, Consumer Reports doesn’t report on things like books and movies, but rather on physical products that are used—and used up at least in the sense that they represent limited resources and don’t last forever—by consumers.
I’ve been happily married for 33+ years. I still both love and strongly feel attraction towards my wife. I suppose, in some much less pleasant timeline, I might marry someone I didn’t love (so long as we liked and respected each other), but I can’t easily imagine the circumstances in modern American society in which I would marry someone I didn’t even feel attraction for.
And like the man said: when you marry for money, you earn every penny.
At my twentieth high school reunion, I found a classmate who had had a crush on me. He didn’t pursue it then, and he didn’t pursue it at the reunion, so I assumed it had died. But I’d feel very sad it he had been too shy/whatever to not follow up. As for the money, I’m willing to wager I have more money now than he does, so I don’t really need the money. I’ll take it as a nice lagniappe and do something frivolous with it.
I don’t feel the need to marry at all now, and there so many financial and other entanglements that come with an official marriage that I think I’d pass. If it meant the other person needed a home, I’d be willing to take them in. Marry them? No.
Same sort of thing happened at my 20th. Someone had told me that she had a major crush on me, and would try to sit near me in all the classes we shared.
I couldn’t remember her at all. I still feel badly about that.
On the breakfast poll, I selected “something else.” In addition to my coffee, my breakfast is usually a few veggie breakfast sausages, heated up in the microwave, but there wasn’t a “meat, no eggs” option in the poll.
Mrs Magill will fry me up some eggs every weekend. She makes the best eggs over easy. If I remember to bring up some bacon from the deep freeze, I’ll make bacon.
ooh, peanut butter. Apologies to anyone who already voted in the “cold” part of the second poll. I was able to edit it to add peanut butter, but that wiped out any voted that were there.
I personally feel like butter, jam, ketchup, mustard are just condiments, and don’t count. But I guess you can add an other if they are important to your meal.
