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It is not uncommon to find the initial
love and warmth fading off soon after the honeymoon. Wondering
how your mom and aunts could live with one man all their
lives? You too could do that...
1. Make sure he makes you laugh
2. Looks don't matter, as long as he
listens to you
3. If you discover, after six months or a
year, that he's wonderful but you keep picking fights with
him, keep the guy but go into therapy.
4. Ask yourself the following questions:
Which TV heroine do you most identify with - the Heena girl or
Sushmita Sen. Would you rather spend the next year sailing
around the world or buying and decorating a cute little house?
Which men on the street attract you - the ones wearing little
bicycle shorts or the ones carrying babies in backpacks? If
you picked Henna girl, the cute house, and the babies, chances
are you're ready to settle down.
5. Get busy. Become vice president of
something. Have a baby, or three. Weed the back yard. And the
front yard. Find that you barely have time to talk to, much
less sleep with, the man you have - never mind any possible
new candidates.
6. During the rocky patch, price a
divorce. Decide it's cheaper and easier to go to Kathmandu,
or any other place that's equally romantic, remote, and
restorative.
7. Have lots of sex. Not just in
Kathmandui. Have sex even when you can't stand him.
8. Every so often, spot him talking to
another woman and recognize that, to someone who doesn't know
his insecurities or Internet addictions, he looks pretty damn
good. Picture him leaving you for her, having a romantic
wedding on the beach, raising a new crop of adorable children,
while you sit home alone haranguing him to send the support
check. This kind of masochistic exercise can actually be good
for your relationship.
9. Every so often, do some flirting of
your own. Picture yourself leaving your husband for this man,
then informing him that you don't cook at all during the week
and need your feet rubbed when you have your period. Feel
exhausted at just the thought of breaking in someone new.
10. Lose the capacity to believe that sex
with another man could transform your life.
11. Grow old in his arms, content, with no
regrets
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