I had it all wrong

Tell me why the saying “opposites attracts” is a good thing. It’s a science thing, one of Newton’s Laws. Who decided to bring that into the dating world? Anytime I hear that saying it’s always said with such devious enthusiasm, as if they’re trying to trick you. The scandalous tricksters.

I’m wondering why people do it? I mean, obviously I’m the only one married to the most amazing man, so what is everyone else’s excuse? Why would they want to spend the rest of their life with someone who thinks it’s okay to leave the toilet seat up? I wouldn’t want to touch that target practice ring. I’m fortunate that my husband is considerate of me and my fingers. However, we do have our differences. We don’t always want to do the same activities or think alike.

Don’t get me wrong, we do have common interests. There are a lot of things we do well together but they’re not as entertaining as our differences. In some areas, we are as different as night and day. The husband, for example, is really good at cooking. He can just whip something together out of nothing. Then he’ll serve it to me and it’ll be delicious. He’ll do that Italian gesture of bringing pinched fingers to his mouth and kissing them away. He’s not Italian, he’s from Idaho and he is gifted in the kitchen.

Me on the other hand….well let’s just say that I’m not as gifted as him. He asked me to make dinner tonight and it was really good. We’re pretty lucky it was good since I found a metal fork inside the casserole. This was after I pulled the casserole out of the oven. I used the fork to whip the broth together earlier and it must’ve slipped into the dish. I usually use plastic forks, so I’d say we’re lucky.

Another example of how our minds work different occurred tonight as well. I had grabbed the computer and was going to do the usual stalking on my social media sites. The husband stopped me and said, “No. Don’t go on the computer. Let’s spend time together tonight; just you and me.”

I smiled really big, and put the computer back down. “Okay! What do you want to do?” Thoughts of playing cards or playing board games or telling secrets late into the night ran through my head.

“Let’s just sit on the couch together and watch TV with no distractions.”

I look at the show he’s watching and reply, “You want to spend time together watching Ultimate Fighter?”

“Yes.”

I picked up the computer and started my stalking. Chuckling to myself, I wondered why he ever thought watching Ultimate Fighter would make a good date night. We like to entertain ourselves differently. I like blogging. My husband thinks it’s great that I do it. Yet, he hasn’t read a blog despite my numerous hints that he should. He did skim through it once and looked for references to him. He said that was the best part of the blog he didn’t read. I laughed. As long as he thinks it’s great that I’m doing something I enjoy, I don’t care if he doesn’t read it.

I told him what I was going to write about tonight and he disagreed with my topic. According to him, we have A LOT in common. When I asked him what that was he said, “We share the same last name and the first initial of the names we go by.”

So there you go ladies and gentlemen. I stand corrected. We have a lot in common: our names.