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"I become her hero when I gird up, armed with the scrubber and dish soap to attack the stubborn dirtiness in her life. Eat suds you rotten little pot clingers."
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I watched While You Were Sleeping with my wife (definitely not my typical video pick), and she sighed, “Isn’t that romantic?” And I answered “Wow! Yes!” and wondered how such a moment had passed me. I tried pretending we were on the same “page de l’amour” but the truth flashed across my face like the spotlights at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre—I didn’t have a clue, and the intense tenderness of While You Were Sleeping drove right through while I slept.
I still can’t tell you how I ended up married to my beloved. All I know is that I proposed after a great talk with my BYU bishop. He noticed my worry over finances and he, being an accounting professor, took out a pencil and paper and showed me how two people in love could live on a microscopic budget. I wish I had kept that paper, because I went directly to the object of my affection and announced, “The bishop says I can get married to you!”
I think she said yes.
I know what you’re thinking: How does this slob stay married? The answer: I don’t know. I think after seventeen years of bliss (for me, probably not for her) I have learned to fake her out a little, be cute, step out of my brutish norm every so often, and then hope that maybe, just maybe, she will think her prince can emerge from the frog. I haven’t witnessed the transformation just yet, but we believe in miracles, don’t we?
View the complete article here >
by Bill Hill - LDS Living Magazine Jan/Feb Issue
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Short & Simple
News, Musings, and Other Interesting Tidbits
"Dating Customs Around the World"
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You think your curfew is bad? Here are some of the ways teens date in countries around the world.
Australia
Most teens go out in large groups and don’t pair off until they are eighteen or nineteen years old. Girls are often the ones to ask out the boys and pay for the date, too. They frequent dinner parties, barbeques, or head to the beach.
Afghanistan
Parents arrange most marriages in Afghanistan, so dating and opportunities to meet are rare. Boys and girls even attend separate schools. Girls have a 7:00 p.m. curfew and boys, 11:00 p.m.
Europe
Dating is usually a group event in Europe. In Finland, as many as thirty teens may go to a movie together. In Spain, teens join a pandilla, a club or a group of friends with the same interests, like hiking, swimming, or reading. Dating is one-on-one; girls and boys ask each other out and split the cost.
Iran
It is against the law to date in Iran. Teens are kept separate until they are old enough to be married, then their families introduce them to each other and sometimes a courtship may follow.
Japan and Korea
In Japan and Korea, most high school teens don’t date or hang out, but spend their time studying. Dating only begins in college, when only boys do the asking and pay for the dates.
For more interesting facts, check out the Jan/Feb issue of LDS Living Magazine
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