You know, 2002 hasn't been nearly half-bad. Certainly better than 2001 was. And what with hurtling towards my birthday (using Tony Pierce notation, I'll be 110 in less than a fortnight), I've been counting my blessings.
On the other hand, it hasn't ben great, either, particularly what with this losing my job business (but hey, at least CSCO is up more than 25% over the past month, so if it keeps going, I'll be solvent for a while longer).
Something that a (married) friend of mine said the other day I thought was very interesting. She said that I'm "great husband material". Which is all great and fine. But I'd humbly suggest that a prerequisite for being "husband material" would be to be "boyfriend material," something that has somehow managed to elude me so far. Perhaps the fact that I'm not very good at the mechanical bits of dating could possibly have something to do with that.
But sometimes things are what things are, eh? Or, as the French are prone to saying, C'est la vie (they also say Oooh-lala, but I don't think that's particularly applicable here).
well paul, isn't it better to be marriage material then divorce material?
and there really is such thing, there's guys that i'd date, but never get serious with and think of as marriage material. but the marriage material guys get women who care about then, offer an emotional connection and more. marriage material guys are boyfriend material - it's just implied. being called marriage material is a huge compliment!
did i say marriage material enough?
observations.
one, My wife made it clear we were to be married less than a month after we started dating, without even realizing she was doing so. Therefore I concur with Michelle's assessment.
two, husband material and boyfriend material are different.
When I was an interesting boyfriend, I was a self-centered drunk who was rather forward, sexually, and not afraid of picking a fight over whatever obsure intellectual point was at the forefront of dispute amng the black-turtleneck and punk rock crowd of the day.
Once It became more important to me to be kind and considerate than to dominate and have a wide variety of sex partners, I became husband material. Or so I flatter myself.
All that is true, but my point is that in societies that don't have arranged marriages, the 'boyfriend' stage is pretty much a mandatory precursor to the 'husband' stage.
Ah, fergit it.