You can call it love if you want or call it I-don't-want-to-make-a-whole-house-payment-by-myself. I'm talking about marriage. Also, my feet get cold when I watch shows. If you help make the house payment and sit on my feet when they're cold, we could call it wedded bliss. Also, I will need you to kill spiders...
Oh! You're more afraid of spiders than me. As long as you never scream like that again, I will make a deal to kill the spiders.
This is what marriage is...years and years of negotiation. That's the happily ever after...wait! Did you just throw your dirty socks on the floor again? So help me, if you did, I'm parking my car a little into your side of the garage. You will come in ranting that you don't have enough room to park and I will think about how you also can't get your dirty socks in the hamper either. We will get mad but when I see you help our kids, my heart will soften up and I'll go re-park the car properly.
We'll start the whole negotiation cycle over. Wedding anniversaries mark the number of years we've managed these negotiations for. It might not seem romantic but that's what's going on behind the scenes.
