I remember
the hilarious remark made by one of my cousins at a family wedding in
California. With every one of the invited guests looking excited and happy for
the newlyweds walking down the aisle,
this guy – my cousin – took a grumpy, mean-streak attitude, saying in a low
voice “Oh, boy, he’s digging his own grave now. Welcome to the hellish roller
coaster!” Ha… Biting my own tongue not to laugh out loud in that sacred moment,
I fell into a deep, deep thought about his ‘not-so-pleasant-but-true’ kind of
comment. Since when or how long would it take for a married couple to feel sort
of ho-hum or blah with each other?
Quite a few
female friends of mine – who have been married for almost 15 – 20 years – complain
about the way their hubbies act. Each time the ladies discover their husbands’
inside-out dirty socks tossed at a random place in the house, jackets and pants
abandoned here and there like snake’s ecdysis
on a daily basis, they dream of getting divorced or running away from it all. Their
list of complaints regarding “hubby’s bad habits” goes on and on. Well, sadly,
their hubbies’ lousy modus vivendi
comes as no surprise to me at all. How about you out there? Join the club!
Let me see
what would turn wives off. When wives normally come across her
husbands’ fashion faux-pas such as wearing
the ugly, chintzy Margaritaville style of shirt with boxer
undies hanging low, they feel the
guys are no longer attractive. How about these men’s nonchalant farting, nose-picking, or burping at the table?
Definitely disgusting. To top it all off,
husbands become deaf and never seem to listen to their wives while they are
into their smart phones, which makes the poor wives say to themselves ‘Hello,
anybody there?!!!’ From time to time,
wives even feel betrayed when their soul mates turn their heads following a
pretty young girl crossing the street. UGH! With hundreds of, thousands of
unpleasant behavior of husbands, wives feel frustrated.
Hmmm…. but
wait. Let us take a brief moment to look back on ourselves as the guys’
lifelong partner. Are we, the wives, all perfectly wonderful, beautiful, and
dutiful fairies all the time…….or at least, most of the time? On the other side
of the married life are the husbands who got as much to say as wives about
their female soul mates. The guys must wonder what has happened to their wives’
hair disaster early in the morning that looks like a ceiling fan accident.
Quite often times, the poor husbands need to see where wind blows not to annoy their wives who have changed
their skin and frequently show mood
swings. On the day the wives had a high school or college reunion, husbands
get ready to be painfully compared with the hubbies of their wives’ friends’
who are good-looking, make a lot of
money, and act like such a gentleman from a movie scene. Husbands’ feelings of
sadness or disappointment do not end there. On the road, husbands also realize
they got married to scary women who keep swearing and giving four letter words
without any effort at other reckless drivers. They sighed saying inside
‘There’s no turning back.’
Well, before continuing to find
fault with your soul mate, just remember these: Your spouse that you call unattractive,
boring, lackluster, or curmudgeon was
the very one that has made your heart skip a beat long ago. He or she is the
one that would never ever let go of your hands through thick and thin. Your soul mate is just like your comfy
soles of your life!
Expressions
to
walk down the aisle:
(=to go down the aisle) to get married
ho-hum/
blahs: exclamation
used to show that you are bored or feeling unhappy or not well
e.g., My niece felt kind of blah at
the graduation party.
ecdysis: (in arachnids or snakes) growth
can occur only by shedding the old exoskeleton/skin, which is a process termed
molting or ecdysis. In the above, this word was used with its figurative meaning.
modus
vivendi: a way of
living
Join
the club!: When
someone says something that you agree with, you say "join the club".
e.g., A: Jesus! I think Leon is such a bad ass! B:Join the club.
to
turn someone off: basically
something that disgusts you, find embarrassing or unappealing (mostly) about
the opposite sex
(fashion)
faux-pas: an action
or a remark that causes embarrassment
because it is not socially correct;
severe social blunder or major
breach in etiquette. In the above passage,
it is used as a fashion mistake/ victim
chintzy: cheap/ not very attractive/ ugly
Margaritaville: Orginated from the Jimmy Buffet
song that is the framework definition for what a beach front vacation paradise
should be. Margartitaville shirt refers
to the lame, ugly, and unfashionable Hawaiian shirt.
undies: underwear
nonchalant: unconcerned or indifferent
to
top it all off: to
matters worse
to
see where the wind blows:
to try to discover information
about a situation, especially
other people's opinions or thoughts, before they
take action
mood
swings: sudden
changes in behavior
curmudgeon: a bad-tempered or difficult/
grumpy person
through
thick and thin: through
the good and the bad times
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