I’ve told her “The secret to our marriage lasting this long is that we are both too weird for anybody else to put up with. We might as well stick together.”

I also figure she gets 80% of the credit for our marriage holding up.

I also realized a few years ago that she falls into the 97th percentile of people I might have married. (Out of a 100 women picked at random, she is better for a mate for me than 96 others.)

On the other hand, I fall into the 50th percentile for her. If she picked a man at random, half would be worse and half would better.

Fortunately for me, she is a person who seldom changes brands when she buys a product. Unless a product has changed in some way she can’t abide, she stays with it for decades.

Kidding.

But really, it’s true that people do have certain ideas about marriage and being married that don’t serve the relationship very well. It’s just like my parents told me–it’s work. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it sucks when you just don’t know how to solve a certain issue or deal with impasses.

Anyway, I enjoyed this post. I’m off to poke around and look at some of your others.

Thanks!

Nora