Real Marriages: Featured Post by Slynnro

From a great post by Slynnro:

I don't ask him to do these things because he truly does not have the time.  I don't ask him to do these things because I don't think he should have to spend what little time he has at home in the evenings pairing socks and scrubbing the toilet.

But the fact that I do all of those things?  Well, it isn't nothing, and he?  He married well too.

I'm not in Slynnro's same situation, not at all, but I was in a pretty destructive relationship before meeting Mike -- the most normal and well-adjusted man I've ever known -- and that relationship was with myself, so I always joke that I'm INSANE and he's, well, NOT and everyone sort of nods their head in amused agreement, but occassionally I want someone to grab him by the shoulders and just say, "YOU LUCKY BASTARD."

Mike is a catch and he's not even a little bit screwed up in the head and I am -- always will be, which I'm a-okay with -- but I'm still a catch, too.

I also do the dishes 99% of the time and every now and then I look at those clean plates and think, "I WANT TO COME BACK IN MY NEXT LIFE AS HIM."

(Or Molly. Well, Molly pre-Kyle. She had it good back then.)

Anyway, go read her entire post. It's honest and great.