206: My Big Fat Geek Marriage
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Hermes Conrad and La Barbara dint stay happy in the entire series, La Barbara left Hermes in Benders big score for a younger more muscular man about 1 hour after Hermes got his head separated from his body.
sorry for taking your one happy imaginary marriage away.
sorry for taking your one happy imaginary marriage away.
I may consider myself also as one of the lucky guys that is allowed to marry a girl that does game soon (actually, August). Took quite some time to find her, but if you get home and she throws the controller at me, saying "you go on playing right now, dinner takes some time" is actually priceless.
But the article is very much on spot when it comes to communication and respect. From what I found is that what took me so long to find a wife was to find somebody that I can make happy and vice versa without putting specific effort into.
That said, I sort of have to disagree that "staying together" is "hard work", or I am even more lucky to have found someone where there is no work at all and it just goes along perfectly with a lot of laughs.
(...and if she says that there will be cake on the weekend, it is not a lie! imagine that!)
But the article is very much on spot when it comes to communication and respect. From what I found is that what took me so long to find a wife was to find somebody that I can make happy and vice versa without putting specific effort into.
That said, I sort of have to disagree that "staying together" is "hard work", or I am even more lucky to have found someone where there is no work at all and it just goes along perfectly with a lot of laughs.
(...and if she says that there will be cake on the weekend, it is not a lie! imagine that!)
This piece was lovely. I especially liked the idea of marriage as the creation of a small culture.
True... But they did remain happily married throughout the run of the *original* series. Okay, yeah, I know it's kind of a stretch. Which only underscores my original point: Happy marriages are hard to come by in sci-fi/fantasy stories.swaki said:
Plus, they did end off the movie back together and happy once more.
You obviously haven't visited the Aiel Wastes (Wheel of Time) or the Harad (LotR).Lara Crigger said:Thanks for all the comments. Didn't mean to make anyone ill, though.
That might be your first mistake. All the barbarian queens I've ever met turn out to be male in real life.salbarragan said:
This is a great story. I'm usually not a fan of the people who get published in the Escapist by writing a story about their personal lives. This, however, had a point to it. It gave us a nice peek into the lives of a married couple as well as some insight as to how marriage works. The fireside chats with Grandpa were executed brilliantly as well; I could practically see Grandpa's wrinkled face, his wispy white hair.
Brilliantly done and one of the best reads I've had in a long time. I eagerly await your next contribution to the Escapist.
Allow me to be verrrry late to the party and add my kudos as I catch up on my reading backlog. Wonderful article. My wife is not a gamer, but we absolutely have begun to form our own language over the last 4 years, and laughter does indeed tend to be the indicator when we get it right.
Sometimes articles like this feel like wearing a pillowcase and looking up at a fat, wealthy man in his gold plated zeppelin, adjusting his monocle and guffawing mightily as he looks down on me, as I meanwhile scrape the meat from the bones of a fish I found in a ditch three days prior. And he's feeding the zeppelin's engine with salisbury steaks and large banknotes. And he's shooting darts at me. Darts dipped in AIDS.
What I'm saying is, WHY DUN GRRLZ LYKE ME.
What I'm saying is, WHY DUN GRRLZ LYKE ME.
Bah, and where exactly does one find a female geek? I understand from rumour etc that they exist but unfortunately I've never met one.Lara Crigger said:
*sigh* I think all you have achieved here is making every geek reading the article tremendously envious.
After reading this article, I think I'll give into my girlfriend's constant requests that I watch her play Skyward Sword now.
This was a great read.
This was a great read.