In high school I took a somewhat boring class from Ms. Mason called Adult Roles. Throughout the whole semester I honestly thought it was the most pointless class I could be taking. However, the past couple of weeks I keep remembering little tidbits that she taught us that I must of picked up between games of solitaire that are actually pretty interesting.
We had a lesson on marriage and why so many couples fight when they first get married. A lot of problems are caused by little things that they don't get along about. An example she gave was putting toilet paper rolls on the wrong way. I sat there, awestruck. People actually fight over those sorts of things?! I couldn't comprehend why that would even matter (you can probably tell that I couldn't care less what way the toilet paper roll goes on, I just pick it up and stuff it on the tube thing.) I told myself Ms. Mason had no idea what she was talking about and quickly forgot about the whole lesson.
So imagine my surprise when I started sharing a bathroom with my brother this summer and he got really angry with me just for squeezing the toothpaste out the wrong way. Again I thought why on earth would someone care?! He cared so much about it that he started hiding the toothpaste from me so it wouldn't have indents in the "wrong" places.
It annoyed me so much that he was annoyed that I started thinking back to Ms. Mason's class and I immediately felt bad for his future spouse. "It's gonna suck for them!!!" I thought as I purposefully squeezed a huge amount of toothpaste from the middle of the tube out on my toothbrush, just to annoy him.
And then I realized it's going to suck even more for my husband. Because as soon as I think his way of doing things is stupid, I'm going to immediately do it my way for th sole purpose of pissing him off because I don't think he should get annoyed at something like that.
My husband is going to have to be VERY patient.
We had a lesson on marriage and why so many couples fight when they first get married. A lot of problems are caused by little things that they don't get along about. An example she gave was putting toilet paper rolls on the wrong way. I sat there, awestruck. People actually fight over those sorts of things?! I couldn't comprehend why that would even matter (you can probably tell that I couldn't care less what way the toilet paper roll goes on, I just pick it up and stuff it on the tube thing.) I told myself Ms. Mason had no idea what she was talking about and quickly forgot about the whole lesson.
So imagine my surprise when I started sharing a bathroom with my brother this summer and he got really angry with me just for squeezing the toothpaste out the wrong way. Again I thought why on earth would someone care?! He cared so much about it that he started hiding the toothpaste from me so it wouldn't have indents in the "wrong" places.
It annoyed me so much that he was annoyed that I started thinking back to Ms. Mason's class and I immediately felt bad for his future spouse. "It's gonna suck for them!!!" I thought as I purposefully squeezed a huge amount of toothpaste from the middle of the tube out on my toothbrush, just to annoy him.
And then I realized it's going to suck even more for my husband. Because as soon as I think his way of doing things is stupid, I'm going to immediately do it my way for th sole purpose of pissing him off because I don't think he should get annoyed at something like that.
My husband is going to have to be VERY patient.
