You could end up like this!
At lunch today a couple of the guys had a hard time grasping how awesome marriage really is. I mean sure there is a lot to be confused about these days - with as much weird stuff as is going on around this issue but...
I'm betting that for those of you out there who are married, you probably never would have said you needed a wife or husband but now that you have one...
You realize that you really did NEED one!
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Well Dale, due to the overwhelming response to this post I can see your point now, Ha.
Devil's Advocate here: Is this "need" anything like my relationship with coffee. See, it depends on what you mean, do you need that significant other or are you dependent upon him or her. And if it is the later, is that a good thing? Its like this, I need coffee in the sense that I am dependent on it to make my brain work more efficiently. If I never had coffee before I would never miss it.
Don't get me wrong here coffee is the second best thing in this world next to Djarums of course.
oh my little jannifer
touche
but I have to say that your analogy to coffee is beautiful. it made me cry. Weeping in fact. that you could even think of using coffee in the context of a discussion about the intimacy and beauty of marriage is a tribute to your fine intellectual prowess and further confirmation of just how critical marriage is to the huMAN condition.
Ha! Jan, way ta go buddy. and I quote: "If I never had coffee before I would never miss it." brilliant!
As far as I see it, for us single people (not just guys) we have no other rational option but to choose contentment in our present relational standings. Marriage is far too critical a decision to stress over cause then it gets rushed and well.. we know what happens next. I say, take life as it comes but WITH your eyes open in case that special someone comes along and just try to enjoy wherever your at.
cliche? maybe, probably... oh well.
Ty
More to Ty's point, as a single person it probably isn't a very good idea to throw all of your eggs into that basket. Its like setting yourself up for disaster. Ty said it best when he said "to choose contentment" kind of as a proactive approach to this.
I do this all the time at university. You write a final or midterm and you think to yourself that you may have passed it or even gotten into the 70's. Then when you get it back and its in the 80's you are always happy with the results. If you swithed that around and bombed her when you thought you aced it you not all that impressed.
I hope made sense as I kind of lost where I was going with that.
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