I know your post was tongue-in-cheek. I guess I feel it's just strange that so many people warn you of doom and gloom and oh you're so heading for divorce oh it's going to get worse, bail out now!
And meanwhile I sit here thinking "Wait a second, we have a snoring issue in our marriage, and we aren't divorcing, don't want to divorce, love each other very much, it's just nothing's perfect.." - and why is it always so black and white to some people? Why does it have to be that everything has to be perfect or else divorceville? If you go into relationships always with that mentality, then you're right, it will end.
In response to what your GF says, I'll quote a male friend of mine: "Women don't see the actual you, they see potential." - and I guess that's true. If it wasn't for me, my husband would have that bald guy with trying to grow his hair hairstyle, he would be wearing navy blue t-shirts that were too small with black shorts that were too short, looking a bit like a walking bruise, complete with high socks and cheap dress shoes, wearing glasses too big for his face.
I also threw out his cotton ties, because no, they are not ever going to come back in style.
So now instead he looks like what I saw: A handsome fair-complected blue-eyed guy with broad shoulders and wiry build with muscle definition that says he doesn't try too hard, but that he's strong.
And luckily I saw the potential.
I hate nagging. His stepmom does it, and it's how she shows love and I can't stand it. Of course neither can he, but sometimes I do have to act like his own personal PocketPC or else he simply will never do things like... remind his family he's still alive. I don't like that role, and I frequently remind him of that.
But as my mom says, I'm married and there are just certain things that he's not going to get right unless I'm there to tell him. I swear, we didn't have that problem before getting married, but then after we said I do it's like some switch was flipped off in his brain.
And no, we're not getting divorced because of it.
Poor Anders, he takes such a beating just because I'm trying to level the playing field by griping about a guy. To balance it, I'll brag about how he just got a Bronze Excellence award at work. What it means, we don't know, but it gives a little tiny bonus this month, a lunch with the boss (yay), a plaque, and should the silver and gold level employees be unable to fulfill their duties, then he's like the Speaker of the House!
I'll also say he's very talented with graphics stuff, and is a small-mobile-device-screen-beautification-specialist. If anyone here is a WM PocketPC or Smartphone user, and you are a fan of customizing your today screen/homescreen (and if you don't, then you should), he might be known to you as Juni.
