First of all, I’d like to thank you all for the kind comments that you left on my last post. I felt kind of self-conscious posting about such personal, not very nice, stuff, but this community never disappoints; your words were so encouraging and it was helpful to hear about how you’ve all dealt with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the mister’
How did we get here?
Posted in Married Life, tagged reflection, the mister on November 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sleeping alone: update.
Posted in Married Life, tagged the mister on November 18, 2009 | 15 Comments »
See Part I here.
Friends, can I be horrifically self-pitying for a moment? This sleeping alone business? It fucking sucks. I don’t know why it is sucking so especially hard this time around, as we have done it enough times before, but both G. and I are feeling it. I go to bed exhausted at night, [...]
We totally missed our three-month anniversary.
Posted in Married Life, tagged daily life, the mister on November 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I knew we’d lose track of the cutesy monthiversaries sooner or later, but I didn’t think that we’d lapse quite so quickly! And it took us a week to realise that we’d missed it. I think we may suck at being newlyweds. Oh well. I want to say that we did something special to make [...]
I don’t like sleeping alone.
Posted in Married Life, tagged the mister, work on November 3, 2009 | 26 Comments »
It’s a bummer when your husband does shift work. Lately he’s been on evening shifts, which is good for his sanity, but not great for having dinner together. We’ve been surviving, though, on our two evenings a week together. I was looking forward to next week, though, when he had been told he’d be switched [...]
Codependency and Pumpkins
Posted in Married Life, tagged miscellaneous, the mister on October 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The mister is the pumpkin carver in our fair household. He possesses magical skills with knives and squash, and every year, friends of ours throw a pumpkin carving party in which he wows a captive audience with his prowess.
Suffice it to say, when we found that this year’s party conflicted with his work schedule, I [...]
Our middle ground:
Posted in Married Life, tagged accordions, the mister on October 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The mister sent me a link to this image this morning (a poster for a metal festival he’s all over):
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We joked that it is the closest that we can come to an aesthetic middle ground. Accordions for me; skulls for him. The give and take of our relationship summed up in one image. Ha! I [...]
An addendum to yesterday’s post: how marriage makes me a better person.
Posted in Married Life, tagged anxiety, reflection, the mister on October 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I talked about how the mister and I chose each other, for all of our good and bad qualities, and how wonderful it feels to know that your life/partnership/marriage is the result of such conscious decisions about what you are taking on. Y’all really expanded on what I had been trying to say in [...]
Marriage and the idea of choice.
Posted in Married Life, tagged reflection, the mister on October 19, 2009 | 19 Comments »
It is an amazing thing to choose someone.
A while back, I wrote about the origins of the mister’s and my relationship. Suffice it to say that we never explicitly dated, but rather we kind of fell into a relationship with each other. I still remember clearly the conversation in which we admitted to each other [...]
Against Appraisal
Posted in Married Life, tagged reflection, the mister on September 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
So I had this moment last winter, where I fell apart. My dissertation had been on hold due to full-time work and I felt like it would never get done/I didn’t know where I was going/I was feeling a lot of pressure from outside sources and I couldn’t answer their questions/all the crazy anxieties that [...]
Dudes. It’s been a freakin’ MONTH.
Posted in Wedding, tagged reflection, the mister on September 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
How did that happen? And why are we not still drinking large quantities of rum and cokes in Nicaragua? It does seem like an appropriate day for my “wedding graduate” post to have gone up chez Meg; I really enjoyed writing it, and I am thankful to Meg for the forum in which to spew [...]
