The LA Times article on love and enduring relationships said that those who manage to have long-term relationships have the same "story" and stick to it. For example there is the fairy tale story (prince and princess), the visionist story (a business model, accumulating homes, goods and successful children), travel story (life is a journey), police story (good guy, bad guy), and war story (constant fights). Their research says that those that have matching story profiles tend to be more satisfied.Makes sense to me. I'm a traveler and believe life is a journey. So does my husband. When I was still single a serious suitor had the prince/princess story. I didn't want to be put on a pedestal - wanted more of an equitable partnership so I knew that relationship wouldn't work. I'm much happier with my "life is a journey" husband. We still do wonderful things for each other and he does spoil me outrageously but we're not the prince/princess model. However we do have a princess in our family - it's called a cat. She definitely lives that story!
Daughter's last day in rehab keeps changing and now it's scheduled for the 11th of August. She and her youngest son are scheduled for another meeting with her counselor this Friday. He'd rather skip the whole thing but it's important to her. And he is at the age (13) where he never seems eager to do anything but once he's into it, it's okay.
We still don't have an appointment for husband's CT-scan. I wondered if he was getting anxious and just wanted to hurry up and get the operation over with. Nope. He's in no hurry to lose his bladder. Of course. I should have known better.
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I would like to be a princess maybe for a day. Actually, I hope the CT Scan hurries up. Is that a later date for your daughter than expected?
We've finally got a date for the CT-scan, the 6th. Daughter's exit date keeps changing slightly though she's doing well and we don't have an explanation as to why. Maybe she's gotten it wrong all along. We just want to get her settled and concentrate on things here at home. Husband told me today that he wants to be cremated if anything goes wrong during surgery. I know we need to discuss these things and I try to be very rational about it, but.....it's hard.
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