Why I Love my Wife
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Everyone in JU (at least, those who have been here awhile) knows little whip. Everyone. And everyone who knows her in JU has an opinion about her, whether 'good' or 'bad'. She has her favorite victims, her good JU buddies, and the rest to amuse her, the vast sea of anonymous, mediocre, second-rate bloggers whom everyone ignores. And all who have, in any way, encountered her have an opinion about her.
Allow me to tell you the truth. The very worst you can imagine of her, the cruellest and most vicious thing, the most terrible thing you can associate with the term 'being human', is true of her. Her cruelty is absolute and knows no limits. And yet she can be terribly solicitous and sympathetic - so long as you do whatever she tells you to do in order to remedy whatever situation she is willing to sympathize with you over.
Why do I love her? Because her cleverest cruelties are always supremely witty. Because her cruellest observations make me howl with laughter. Because she is, consummately, a woman, and women are far more terrible, sophisticated, and savage in their humor than are men. And this is a thing worthy of the greatest love and respect on the part of men: a) because women in general swoon when a man acknowledges the fact of this cruelty; and
most women are too simple to realize that some men are capable of exploiting their understanding of their own cruelty to their own advantage.
My wife is at once the most knowing and the most innocent of individuals. It's innocence allied to curiosity that makes me howl with laughter when we sit at the table in the kitchen in the evening after I get back from work and bullshit back and forth. She makes me laugh more than anyone else I've ever known. And she has the invaluable gift of being able to make me laugh at myself, of being able to cut me down to my proper size, without ever being insulting or arrogant or over-bearing. She makes me see myself - and laugh. Which cannot ever be anything but a good thing.
There is no denying that she's strange. But neither is there any denying that I am strange, or that how we are strange together intermeshes in interesting and provocative ways.
I think that's what I love about her most. That she's willing to accept the many ways in which I am strange, and willing to build a successful life around them without any demand that I change. She is how she is: and she is willing to accord the same privilege of being to anyone who is willing to take up the challenge of actually being what they are.
Everyone, including the most devoted of lovers, wants you to change to the point where they can recognise themselves in you. Not Sabrina. Instead, like me, she demands that you be absolutely yourself - even if doing so requires that you be at war with each other every evening. Better to be at war with each other than to live in the deathly peace of complacency. Of self-satisfied 'understanding'.
Why do I love her? Because she makes me laugh more than anyone else ever has.
My wife is a remarkable woman.
Allow me to tell you the truth. The very worst you can imagine of her, the cruellest and most vicious thing, the most terrible thing you can associate with the term 'being human', is true of her. Her cruelty is absolute and knows no limits. And yet she can be terribly solicitous and sympathetic - so long as you do whatever she tells you to do in order to remedy whatever situation she is willing to sympathize with you over.
Why do I love her? Because her cleverest cruelties are always supremely witty. Because her cruellest observations make me howl with laughter. Because she is, consummately, a woman, and women are far more terrible, sophisticated, and savage in their humor than are men. And this is a thing worthy of the greatest love and respect on the part of men: a) because women in general swoon when a man acknowledges the fact of this cruelty; and
My wife is at once the most knowing and the most innocent of individuals. It's innocence allied to curiosity that makes me howl with laughter when we sit at the table in the kitchen in the evening after I get back from work and bullshit back and forth. She makes me laugh more than anyone else I've ever known. And she has the invaluable gift of being able to make me laugh at myself, of being able to cut me down to my proper size, without ever being insulting or arrogant or over-bearing. She makes me see myself - and laugh. Which cannot ever be anything but a good thing.
There is no denying that she's strange. But neither is there any denying that I am strange, or that how we are strange together intermeshes in interesting and provocative ways.
I think that's what I love about her most. That she's willing to accept the many ways in which I am strange, and willing to build a successful life around them without any demand that I change. She is how she is: and she is willing to accord the same privilege of being to anyone who is willing to take up the challenge of actually being what they are.
Everyone, including the most devoted of lovers, wants you to change to the point where they can recognise themselves in you. Not Sabrina. Instead, like me, she demands that you be absolutely yourself - even if doing so requires that you be at war with each other every evening. Better to be at war with each other than to live in the deathly peace of complacency. Of self-satisfied 'understanding'.
Why do I love her? Because she makes me laugh more than anyone else ever has.
My wife is a remarkable woman.