wives and rides

[Jeff Gronert]

>I've been married 18 years and I started out as the good compromising >husband who tried to "fix everything that was wrong" like she was a >motorcycle. Through the years I've become more and more the knuckle

dragging

>bastard and I think we're both alot happier because of it! Shame it took so >long to figure it out. >We don't have a problem with either of us taking off for a few days. And >enjoy coming back too! > >CaffeineRacer, >When life throws curves...lean into them! > > >From: "geolinda" >Subject: Re: Wives, Motorcycles, and Trips >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:35:18 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; >charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >-Getting through the rough parts (and we all had those) takes a lot of >compromising, but too much of it can ruin a relationship too. >I'll make up a scenario: >She is losing her figure and feels like she is turning into her mother and >she is miserable (sounds familiar?). He comes from work, she immediately >complains about the kids and the dishes. The good compromising husband is >tired but he does the dishes, takes care of the kids etc. Time to go to bed >and she is still sulking. >Now he is pissed, he tries so hard and she is still angry? no point in even >asking about going riding..... >An uncompromising knuckle dragging bastard would get home and laugh at her >complaints. He would also grab her, kiss her and do all sorts of nasty >little things to her until she smiled and then they talked. After a few >minutes (and maybe some tears) she would feel better, maybe even a little >silly about all that fuss. Then smiling he'd slap her butt and tell her: >"get the kids while I do the dishes...and by the way, next week I am going >riding with the guys"