I Live In a Sexless Marriage
Well it's Christmas time again and I'm broke as usual. Bought all the stuff that everyone requested plus a few things that I thought they might like. Seems like every year when it comes time for getting me a gift though it's just too hard so this time I was told I would be given some money to use for whatever I wanted. Hmmmmmmm. Seem that I wanted a new computer and the money made a down payment on a real screamer that I'll be paying for over the next year but hey at least I got something I wanted. This also got me a very stern lecture about how I should avoid going into debt for stuff. But I figure as long as I'm making the payments then I'm good.
The point is that a lot of us are so disconnected from our spouses that they don't even know us well enough or care enough to even try to buy us a Christmas or a birthday gift. For years it's been gift cards or cash as an easy way out often birthdays are forgotten altogether. But heaven forbid that I should try to use that same tactic because then I would be well I'm not even sure what would happen but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be good because there seems to always be an expectation there that I will do something extraordinary for all these events. But I suppose that's my own fault in a way because I always have done those extraordinary things to try and make things better.
But things have been changing a bit lately and the gifts have been getting a bit more practical. Instead of swag now it's more like tools for survival. I've noticed that I sometimes get that questioning sort of look about some of these "gifts" but what can be said after all it's a gift right? After all what girl could resist a fifty gallon blue plastic water barrel (deluxe model with barrel bung wrench and siphon kit) for her anniversary. (I actually did that one) She had been watching the Doomsday Preppers on TV so I got her a water barrel for her anniversary. I think this year I will get her a couple of cases of MREs how romantic is that?
The point is that a lot of us are so disconnected from our spouses that they don't even know us well enough or care enough to even try to buy us a Christmas or a birthday gift. For years it's been gift cards or cash as an easy way out often birthdays are forgotten altogether. But heaven forbid that I should try to use that same tactic because then I would be well I'm not even sure what would happen but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be good because there seems to always be an expectation there that I will do something extraordinary for all these events. But I suppose that's my own fault in a way because I always have done those extraordinary things to try and make things better.
But things have been changing a bit lately and the gifts have been getting a bit more practical. Instead of swag now it's more like tools for survival. I've noticed that I sometimes get that questioning sort of look about some of these "gifts" but what can be said after all it's a gift right? After all what girl could resist a fifty gallon blue plastic water barrel (deluxe model with barrel bung wrench and siphon kit) for her anniversary. (I actually did that one) She had been watching the Doomsday Preppers on TV so I got her a water barrel for her anniversary. I think this year I will get her a couple of cases of MREs how romantic is that?
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Warriorpoett
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56-60
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