When I was planning my (fabulous) wedding, I subscribed to theknot.com, which I found incredibly helpful. Apparently they have a "married lady" branch, called thenest.com, because I have been getting magazines in the mail that helpfully tell me what things I should be buying to make my "nest" a real home, now that I am married and must buy many more things in order to be happy.
Most recently, I got an e-mail from thenest.com with the subject "Four Ways to Make Your Marriage Sizzle!" and I could not resist opening it.
The e-mail explained that people get too comfortable with each other after they get married, and husbands will get bored with their wives very quickly if they let this comfort happen (apparently at the six-month mark, which is when they sent the e-mail). Their number one tip for women was: "Do not, under any circumstances, go to bed with prickly legs or zit cream!"
I have a few problems with this advice:
1. I have zits
2. I am Italian -- my legs are prickly approximately 45 minutes after I shave them in the morning
If this is the best advice there is for keeping a marriage together, then I am screwed. Or, of course, I can always remember to focus on that feeling I had when things were fresh and new.
That is ridiculous! And I sort of hate all the unstated presuppositions about what keeps people loving each other. My husband has watched two entire babies come out of my body. If I needed to hold on to the illusion of glamour in order to keep him interested, I'd be so screwed.
ReplyDeleteIn almost seven years of marriage, I've gone to bed with prickly legs at least 75% of the time. Possibly more. And we are happy as clams.
But I don't like theknot.com anyway, mostly because they call their pregnancy site "The Bump" and that REALLY skeeves me out.
Haha! The Bump! I don't like it either.
ReplyDeleteYeah, if Jeremy had married me because he thought I was perfect and glamorous and whatnot, then clearly he was under some spell that caused him to not notice the actual (slightly disheveled and less-than-perfect) me. And if he thought anything was going to change after we were married to make me skinner, smoother, or more flawless in any way, then he was grossly misinformed.
I am convinced that companies are telling women they have to shave their legs every 2 hours to keep their husbands from cheating because they have a stake in a hair removal product of some sort.
That is ridiculous! And I sort of hate all the unstated presuppositions about what keeps people loving each other. My husband has watched two entire babies come out of my body. If I needed to hold on to the illusion of glamour in order to keep him interested, I'd be so screwed.
ReplyDeleteIn almost seven years of marriage, I've gone to bed with prickly legs at least 75% of the time. Possibly more. And we are happy as clams.
But I don't like theknot.com anyway, mostly because they call their pregnancy site "The Bump" and that REALLY skeeves me out.