Saturday, November 8, 2008

Newlyweds No Longer

I have mixed feelings about being pushed out of the Newlywed club. For some reason I am under the impression that being a newlywed is over after one year. I would google it but I'm pretty sure I'm right. On Monday November 17th Glenn and I will celebrate our one year anniversary. If you are newly married you are most likely rather familiar with hearing this question from that person you kind of know at work or a somewhat distant relative: "So, how is married life?" Isn't that a fun question to answer! Well I typically say something like this, "It's great, I don't have any complaints." To which the questioner inevitably replies, "Well of course not yet you are still a Newlywed." I never know how to respond to this kind of remark. While I typically mumble something about how that could be true, I wish I would have had the courage to take a different route: "Yeah, let's be realistic my marriage is going to blow in a few years!" or maybe this one "Lord knows it can't be going much worse than your first marriage!" I'm also starting to think that passing the one year anniversary will result in less of the "How is married life?" question in the first place. Not being a newlywed may have it's perks after all.

2 comments:

Bubbanator said...

You cant be a newlywed if you dated for a decade beforehand(in my opinion)


But you will probably always appear to be a young "newlywed" and glenn will appear to be your dad.


When people ask me, "How is married life?" I just say, "Dont ask" and look at them really seriously. The perk is that way they dont ask anymore. Downside: They think your marriage is rocky.

The Pratt's said...

You make me laugh out loud! I think there might be an acronym for that...