(This is one that works best read aloud - no naughty stuff, I promise!)
One lovely evening before we got married, my future wife, Melinda and I were on the couch simply chatting the night away, as you'd expect a boyfriend and girlfriend to do.
And little did either of us know it, but the conversation gently steered through a dense forest of serious topics: Hurtful relationships, sour friendships and poisonous family situations.
As future husband, I decided to hang onto every word to make sure she knows that I care and also that I can comfort her when it's my chance to speak again.
Then "that moment" occurred. Melinda had built the seriousness up so well that I became overly aware of it.
While we were still trundling through the forest of weighty seriousness, I could feel an urge to pull out a chainsaw and just start chopping down all the serious trees. It became overpowering.
To the point where I was no longer hanging onto every word; instead I was filtering out puns and film-references.
I felt like Spongebob and Patrick in that scene where they irresistibly have to sing the Goofy Goober song.
Melinda gritted, "Insecurity is obvious when you point out other people's flaws."
I pointed out the lounge floor, the kitchen floor, the bedroom floor...mouthing the names as I went along.
Time apparently stopped.
I looked and saw her stunned expression.
And that is all I pretty much remember.
One lovely evening before we got married, my future wife, Melinda and I were on the couch simply chatting the night away, as you'd expect a boyfriend and girlfriend to do.
And little did either of us know it, but the conversation gently steered through a dense forest of serious topics: Hurtful relationships, sour friendships and poisonous family situations.
As future husband, I decided to hang onto every word to make sure she knows that I care and also that I can comfort her when it's my chance to speak again.
Then "that moment" occurred. Melinda had built the seriousness up so well that I became overly aware of it.
While we were still trundling through the forest of weighty seriousness, I could feel an urge to pull out a chainsaw and just start chopping down all the serious trees. It became overpowering.
To the point where I was no longer hanging onto every word; instead I was filtering out puns and film-references.
I felt like Spongebob and Patrick in that scene where they irresistibly have to sing the Goofy Goober song.
Melinda gritted, "Insecurity is obvious when you point out other people's flaws."
I pointed out the lounge floor, the kitchen floor, the bedroom floor...mouthing the names as I went along.
Time apparently stopped.
I looked and saw her stunned expression.
And that is all I pretty much remember.
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