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You Say "Potato", I Say "Potato"
by Dr. David Clarke
Today, we continue the descriptions of personality and lifestyle differences you may find familiar.
Mr. Crude and Mrs. Manners
Mr. Crude belches and passes gas on a regular basis. He sees this as "being a man." It's also being a man not to feel too badly about it and to rarely say "Excuse me" after the offensive behavior. Mrs. Manners is horrified and offended by his complete lack of taste.
Pack Rat and Garage Saler
The Pack Rat keeps everything, including every school paper the children bring home. The Pack Rat hogs every square inch of storage room to hoard the treasure trove of trivialities and minutia. The Garage Saler wants to sell everything and feels buried alive in a mountain of uselss stuff.
Ratty Clothes Man
This husband parades around in twenty-year-old, thread-bare T-shirts, college sweatshirts, and gym shorts from his high school days. His old clothes are filled with holes and hideous stains, but he considers them his old friends. He's horribly out of fashion, but he's comfortable.
The Closet Hog
This wife fills her closet, his closet, and parts of other closets with her amazing quantity and variety of clothes and her incredible assortment of shoes, purses, belts, hats, and pieces of jewelry. She continues to buy more closet-hogging items, even though there is no room left and she can't possibly wear all the things she already has. On the bright side, she keeps the economy going.
The Incredible Phone-Talking Woman
She talks on the telephone just about every free waking minute. She has an impressive array of family and friends, and she must keep in daily contact with all of them. No topic of conversation is unimportant. The husband hears the same stories repeated over and over as he struggles to keep his brain from exploding.
Never on Time
One spouse is chronically late for everything. Church. Social events. School activities. Doctor appointments. Work. Airline flights. He or she is usually married to someone who wants to be fifteen minutes early for everything. They make a tough combination.
I'm going to Die - Again!
This partner thinks that every illness or pain is a symptom of a final, fatal disease. Pain in the chest means catastrophic heart problems. Pain in the back means the kidneys are failing. And so on!
The List Goes On....
I could go on and on. There are sunny optimists married to gloom-and-doom pessimists. Bedroom television watchers who have to have the set to go to sleep. Physical fitness enthusiasts who pressure the spouse to work out and consume fruit drinks. Vegetarians. Lip-smacking, slurping soup eaters. Snorers. Bed hogs. Toss and turners. Putterers.
And you could probably add a few of your own!
Content taken directly from The Total Marriage Makeover by David Clarke. Published by Barbour Publishing.
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