Mid Life Crisis (2)
When I got home yesterday, my wife corrected me and said the changes in behavior that were happening in my life weren’t a “mid life crisis”…a mid life crisis would include a new sports car and an affair. Now the new sports car sounds very appealing to me right now. My Acura SUV is almost 8 years old and has 195,000 miles on it. It gets a mighty 16-18 miles per gallon, but it’s been a perfect car from both a driving and a maintenance stand point. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch for me to say that my car to me has been like me to my wife – lots of miles, low maintenance, lots of pleasure, and nothing to worry about!
Now back to that affair thing. The car is easy and quite honestly something I’ve been thinking about frequently right now. But that affair thing is quite a bit more complex. See, my wife is half Cajun…real Cajun…pain inducing Cajun if I did something stupid. I’ve gone through life with “Fatal Attraction” on the front lobe of my thinking, except turn them roles around and see my Cajun wife with the knife coming at me rather than Glenn Close! After over 5 years of courting prior to marriage that included 4 splits, 2 engagements, and numerous lengthy separations, and then over 25 years of marriage with no splits but about half of our marriage spent in separation for business reasons (not because of problems in our relationship), we’ve come to a type of harmony and incredible respect for each other that has weathered the time and outlasted those separations. I must admit, a healthy dose of fear (that Fatal Attraction affect) is not necessarily a bad thing in a relationship…sort of keeps me on my toes…sort of keeps me looking over my shoulder…sort of keeps me working hard to show and prove my love at all times…just in case there is any doubt…just in case I do something stupid…just in case…
I wonder if Fatal Attraction is out in high def DVD? I should watch that about every month or so! Maybe every guy should!
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