HE SAYS
One of the side effects of getting married is that we need to live together.
It might not seem like much but I have access to very reliable empirical research that living together tears apart more marriages than, I swear this is true, asteroids crashing into Earth – and with more devastating consequences.
It seems fallacious to dive headlong into a marriage without first finding out what it is like to live with each other.
So, we decided to isolate ourselves from our friends and family.
We ran away for 2 weeks to a place where nobody knows us;
where it is so isolated that we could not understand anything the natives are saying;
where we would have to face each other 24 hours a day and wake up every morning sharing (horrors) the same tube of toothpaste;
We needed to spend quality time discussing important marriage questions such as the merits and demerits of a tube wedding gown. Verdict: Not a very good idea, especially *snort* if the bride slims down tremendously. Problems might arise when she lifts both hands to throw the bouquet.
Sidenote: Why do you need to use both hands to throw a bouquet anyway??? It’s not exactly a bouquet of plowers, is it?
We also needed space to find ourselves as a couple, defining boundaries when it comes to staying together. An advice to all other professional guys out there: Leaving the television and lights on during unnecessary situations such as “when you leave the room”, “when you fall asleep at night” or “when you need to find your glasses in the middle of the night” could potentially bankrupt the hotel as your cut throat hotel fees are not able to cover the electricity bills at the end of the month. Apparently, if all travelers are as wasteful on the electrical usage as we are, we could even bankrupt a small country like say… Germany.
On this note, apparently, we COULD understand a lot of what the natives were saying.
