If O and I could get a £1 for every time we’ve been asked,
“how’s married life?” we’d be loaded!
I’m sure I was guilty of doing it and for that I sincerely
apologise.
Option 1
How’s married life?
Great, amazing, we’re so happy, thanks for asking.
Aww you’re still in the honeymoon period that’ll pass :)
F**k you
Great, amazing, we’re so happy, thanks for asking.
Aww you’re still in the honeymoon period that’ll pass :)
F**k you
Option2
How’s married life?
It’s ok, just the same as normal really
Aww passed the honeymoon period already? :(
F**k you
It’s ok, just the same as normal really
Aww passed the honeymoon period already? :(
F**k you
So how's married life? It is great I love my husband but it
isn’t that much different to life before we got married. We still have to go to
work (staring lovingly into each others eyes isn’t going to pay the bills and I
hate to admit it but it does get a little dull after a while). We have to cook
dinner (well he does) we have to clean the bathroom (well I do).
Still to be married folk I have some really bad news for you. Time does not stand still. You have this momentous day, you make these life altering promises to each other and yet time keeps going. Your guests will go to work on Monday, the postman will still deliver your credit card bill. I'm telling you it was a shock to me. I was expecting there to be a pause. Also you don't look any different either (this is starting to sound like losing your virginity). When you go and pay for the petrol the guy behind the desk will not understand why you are grinning like a mad thing - he really just wants you to pay and leave already.
Married life is life but with extra jewellery, an extra
sense of relationship security, an extra glow in my heart that he is my husband
(don’t tell him that). The every now and again "wow we're married". A whole lot of extra paperwork (should have stuck with
my own name). Learning a new terminology
– he is my husband not my partner or boyfriend and I’m his wife.
I had a fear that getting married would change us and
perhaps it will with time. However, really I didn’t want our relationship to
change that much because I wouldn’t have married him if I wanted something or someone
different.
All of that aside – what is the right answer? Or what answer
(not involving swearing) will make them shut up and go away?
*I first drafted this post when we'd been married for three months, the intensity of the questioning has reduced some so I not quite so angry and bitter as it might sound above.
