My husband called me today from the city asking me if I could get him on the Internet from our shore house. You see, I should be flattered-he thinks I’m a maven. Although I have tried to tell him, I can’t perform miracles, the burden of his believing I can do anything and everything sometimes is a heavy weight.
Now, I admit I am much younger than he is and started our marriage by being pretty self-sufficient, but he doesn’t understand there are things that are beyond my scope. I can’t set up his Wi-Fi in the city from New Jersey.
Disappointed, he asked, “What are you doing today?”
“Up on a ladder painting the house trim.”
In my dreams I heard him reply,
“Oh Honey, wait for me and I will help you this weekend.”
In reality he replied, “Well, be careful don’t fall off the ladder.”
“If I do nobody will know except Sophie (our Lhasa) and she doesn’t know how to dial 911. I will be like the giant tree that falls in the woods and makes a great noise, but nobody hears because no one is there.”
“Ok. See you this weekend. Love you.” He hung up hearing nothing that I said, confident his maven had it under control.
Moral of this story: I learned a long time ago in our relationship that my husband is Tom Sawyer and I am the one who is showing him how to paint the fence. Because I am honestly kind of a maven I get it. And I go along with it because I get it and he doesn’t realize it.
I clicked off and wiped the wet white paint fingerprints from my iPhone. No use dreaming of a knight in shinning armor riding to my rescue with bulging biceps and a paint brush. My knight has skinny arms, rides a bike and his hand holds not a paint brush, but a remote that hops from channel to channel. He loves my soups, misses me when I am away and thinks I am beautiful.
Relationships are work. No doubt about it, the Venus and Mars theory is right on!
Love the ‘what you’re thinking’, and what was ‘actually said’. If only. Sometimes my guy says to write it on a 3×5 card for him (my ideal response), does that count?! 🙂
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We need a sense of humor about it all. Love your response!
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