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Susan and I met in the ‘80s sometime, and we've been married for…she said 23 or something years that we've been hanging out together. I don't know if that sounds right? Sometimes I can feel the load, but then sometimes I'm not sure.

Romance is a very difficult question. I think, in life, I never quite understood it. You can love your dog, you can love your shotgun, and you really can love your motorcycle, but that's not the same as your wife. You need to LOVE your wife, right? ‘Cuz you don't want to have another one. You wanna keep the one you got. But I know, love and romance are different, and I understand that. I guess at the beginning, maybe it was a little more sexual than romantic, cuz I'm trying to be truthful now. Hey... She's still here! We've loved, and lived and hated, and loved, and lived and hated, and we're still together, and we still laugh and we still dance in the kitchen when nobody else is around. So I guess we're ok. I mean, that's all I know. I've only had one wife, so how do you compare these things in life. There's somebody you might know who's had 3 wives and they're out looking for another one! They gotta be in the nuthouse these people, my god, all that time... I mean, it took me a lifetime to break in one, how in the world are you going to do it every couple years? Isn't that a difficult thing? Hey, I'm happy, she's happy. I think we're doing pretty well. Some people even think we're a cute couple. I don't know why, but they do.

 

When she moved in, she did a little re-decorating.  That's what ladies do, they start nesting. As a single man, you see this stuff goin’ on.. "oh, here's a drawer full of underwear, I wonder what that means." So I was kinda figuring this out. And an exciting story in my life, that I married this woman. And one day after the honeymoon I come home from work, all my dishes, my pots and pans, my plants, are all out on the porch! I thought she was throwing me out! But after the wedding we had all these new things, so I guess that's what happens. We have taken a bachelor pad and turned it into a home for this lady, who is still working on it to this day. And she's still fighting with me, and that's just the way it is. She has moved most of the antlers off the wall, but there's one set high enough on the wall that she can't get at and it's still in that house. And it makes me smile. And I think it makes her crazy just ‘cuz I talk about it to people. But she's got everything. She's got an island, and cupboards with doors!

 

Chapter 8

My Lovely Wife

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Susan and I met in the ‘80s sometime, and we've been married for…she said 23 or something years that we've been hanging out together. I don't know if that sounds right? Sometimes I can feel the load, but then sometimes I'm not sure.

 

Romance is a very difficult question. I think, in life, I never quite understood it. You can love your dog, you can love your shotgun, and you really can love your motorcycle, but that's not the same as your wife. You need to LOVE your wife, right? ‘Cuz you don't want to have another one. You wanna keep the one you got. But I know, love and romance are different, and I understand that. I guess at the beginning, maybe it was a little more sexual than romantic, cuz I'm trying to be truthful now. Hey... She's still here! We've loved, and lived and hated, and loved, and lived and hated, and we're still together, and we still laugh and we still dance in the kitchen when nobody else is around. So I guess we're ok. I mean, that's all I know. I've only had one wife, so how do you compare these things in life. There's somebody you might know who's had 3 wives and they're out looking for another one! They gotta be in the nuthouse these people, my god, all that time... I mean, it took me a lifetime to break in one, how in the world are you going to do it every couple years? Isn't that a difficult thing? Hey, I'm happy, she's happy. I think we're doing pretty well. Some people even think we're a cute couple. I don't know why, but they do.

 

When she moved in, she did a little re-decorating.  That's what ladies do, they start nesting. As a single man, you see this stuff goin’ on.. "oh, here's a drawer full of underwear, I wonder what that means." So I was kinda figuring this out. And an exciting story in my life, that I married this woman. And one day after the honeymoon I come home from work, all my dishes, my pots and pans, my plants, are all out on the porch! I thought she was throwing me out! But after the wedding we had all these new things, so I guess that's what happens. We have taken a bachelor pad and turned it into a home for this lady, who is still working on it to this day. And she's still fighting with me, and that's just the way it is. She has moved most of the antlers off the wall, but there's one set high enough on the wall that she can't get at and it's still in that house. And it makes me smile. And I think it makes her crazy just ‘cuz I talk about it to people. But she's got everything. She's got an island, and cupboards with doors!

 

 

Chapter 8

My Lovely Wife