I think I’ll just stick to the term “Spousal Unit”, or “The Wife”.
anyhoo… As some of you know the wife and I got married over 17 years ago. She was 17 & I was 20. She was pregnant, and just out of a college prepatory school. Her parents had to sign for us to get married. While at the courthouse he smartly remarked, would you like to go ahead and fill out your divorce papers while you’re here? Ass Hole. We’ve decided that’s why we’re still married, we don’t want to give the nay-sayers the satisfaction. Actually we get along remarkably well. We’ve had friends who fight, and we’re rank amateurs compared to them! We finish each others sentances, and with the exception with her love of horror movies, which I don’t particularly care for, we agree on everything else.
She is the eternal optimist, and I am definitely the jaded cynical one. She is very much the liberal, and my leanings are what could only be termed as “more than slightly conservative”. She likes classical and jazz, I like metal, alternative, and classic rock. I could go on and on, and believe me we do.
In spite of all of this, the time we spend together is nothing short of magical. She still puts notes in my lunch which make me smile, blush, or both. I have never met a more loving and caring woman in my life.
Karen, I love you like crazy. Thank you.
(she doesn’t post, another difference, but believe me , she’ll see this. I’ll make sure.
And I’ll even put my G.R.O.S.S. membership on the line for this.)
Still trying to think of something witty to say here
I’m going to break precedent here and saulte a Couple.Satan and Drain Bead.
Satan,for having the hope to try again after being stabbed in the back,and Drain for giving him that hope.
Congrats to you both!!
King and Queen of the SDMB!
What can I say about my wife that can’t be included in the words “She’s the greatest”?
Whenever I’m PO’ed, she makes sure to be the calm, rational one in the family (and when she’s got problems, I make sure to be). She slips thoughtful little notes into my lunch which I bring to work.
She and I always plan our trips together, do crosswords together.
We never stop arguing, though. I keep insisting (as above) that she’s the greatest. For reasons I have yet to determine, she insists I am. I say I’m living the most wonderful life anyone’s ever lived; she claims she is (though I can’t imagine it being possible).
But I’m winning the argument…I’ve got our oldest son trained to say that she’s the best, and that I’m the luckiest.
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
