As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
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As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
@fesshole And they're not hard to find, IME. Of course, you then have to put up with him.
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@fesshole And here I was thinking the secret was to build a relationship built on absolute trust and reciprocity. Silly me.
@Eetschrijver @fesshole I mean, the fact he can recognize uselessness in another spouse implies he’s doing a lot more right than he gives himself credit for.
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@Eetschrijver @fesshole I mean, the fact he can recognize uselessness in another spouse implies he’s doing a lot more right than he gives himself credit for.
@queenofnewyork @fesshole Well, maybe. Then again, the fact that he apparently needs an absolute failure to be compared favourably to, tells me he's not quite there yet.
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@queenofnewyork @fesshole Well, maybe. Then again, the fact that he apparently needs an absolute failure to be compared favourably to, tells me he's not quite there yet.
@Eetschrijver @fesshole Could be. This is one I’m more curious about than most of the fessers.
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@Eetschrijver @fesshole Could be. This is one I’m more curious about than most of the fessers.
@queenofnewyork @fesshole Well, he might not be absolutely useless.
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As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
@fesshole I can tell you from first hand experience, that this just makes the wife of the bafoon even sadder.
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@fesshole *looks at best friend’s long, happy marriage*
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@queenofnewyork @fesshole Well, he might not be absolutely useless.
@Eetschrijver @queenofnewyork @fesshole you're assuming he correctly identified bufoonery in the other man
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@Eetschrijver @queenofnewyork @fesshole you're assuming he correctly identified bufoonery in the other man
@independentpen @Eetschrijver @fesshole It's true that I am taking his word for that.
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As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
@fesshole Well, whatever you do, don't let her hang out with her single friends.
That was funny until I realized/remembered that in fact men do this exactly for that reason.
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@fesshole And here I was thinking the secret was to build a relationship built on absolute trust and reciprocity. Silly me.
And communication
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As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
@fesshole You didn’t specify where the buffoon resides
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As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
@fesshole so you’ve seen The Good Life, then
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@fesshole so you’ve seen The Good Life, then
@scottearle @fesshole the secret to a successful relationship is to marry Felicity Kendal.
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@fesshole everything is relative.
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@scottearle @fesshole the secret to a successful relationship is to marry Felicity Kendal.
@masp Or be a Kendal! My husband and I have been together happily for over 3 decades
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