The Life of Bon: To be married

Monday, October 07, 2013

To be married



A few nights ago I couldn't find my toothbrush, but Greg's toothbrush was (for whatever odd reason) lying on the bedroom floor, so I picked it up and brushed my teeth with it.  No harm no foul, right?

And then it dawned on me.  What a weird thing. To live with a boy who is sometimes smelly and always nice, and then  find his toothbrush on the floor and just up and use it.  Shucks! This is what it is to be married?  To exchange knowing looks across a crowd full of people. To argue over what kind of dog to get.  To learn a new recipe because it's his favorite. To wait for him before you watch your favorite new episode on Hulu.  To stand up for him. To beg for a massage. To get so mad at him you could scream. To clean the whole house and buy decorations and wait for him to get home and notice. To wonder when you are going to have babies. To tell him to stop spending so much. To miss him when you haven't talked for eight hours. To laugh at an inside joke. To know exactly what his hand feels like in yours.  To yell at him to get into the other lane. To take a hot bath with him. To beg him to go to a wedding reception with you. To feel pride when he eats all the food you have cooked. To pray for his happiness. To watch Transformers with him even though you hate that movie.  To have a favorite restaurant together. To throw his clothes in the laundry. To ask him to pick up a diet coke for you on his way home.  To tell him to turn off the damn alarm.  To run your fingers through his hair. To plead with him not to get mad when you lose the keys. To make all big life decisions together. To put his name on all of your "emergency contact" forms. To feel his disappointment as your own. To laugh at his stupid jokes.  To feel safe when he is there. To swear at him when he beats you in tennis. To beg forgiveness when you hurt his feelings. To ask what he thinks of your new haircut. To record a basketball game on TV for him. To wear a dress because you know he likes the way it looks on you. To go to dinner with his parents. To know his smell. To follow him around the house arguing that you are right and he is wrong. To give him the hamburgers to throw on the grill. To know who his favorite actor is. To complain that he's hogging all the covers. To pick up his towel off the floor. To show him a new favorite song that you love. To plan your life around his and his around yours. To steal quarters out of his pants pocket. To get mad at him for being late. To make him late.  To pick up his favorite candy bar at the store. To spoon in the morning. To listen to him tell stories to your niece. To go for a run together. To tell him he's the most stubborn person you've ever met. To take his last name. To painfully create a budget together. To hope he doesn't notice when you buy a new pair of shoes. To sip from his soda at the movie theater. To give love. To receive love. To always be his number one priority.

This is what it is to be married.


55 comments:

  1. I love this, I love this, I love this. So perfect.

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  2. I read every single word in this post and absolutely loved it. It is so sweet, thoughtful, and insanely truthful all at the same time! One of my favorite posts of yours :)

    Bri
    breezydaysblog.com

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  3. This is beautiful, Bonnie! I love it, and it shows how much love you two share!

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  4. Yes, love all those things about being married! Great post!

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  5. Anonymous8:38 PM

    This is absolutely beautiful. It's such a wonderfully realistic and palpable view of marriage...one that makes you think about and appreciate all of the seemingly little nuances.
    Thank you for this!!

    Erica
    ericaligenza.wordpress.com

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  6. Love love loved this! I've only been married for six months, but it is the absolute best. I never would have guessed all of the little things that become you when get married.

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  7. This is my favorite post of yours for sure! Love this!

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  8. This is my favorite post of yours for sure! Love this!

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  9. I am getting married in February and your post has me SO excited about marriage. I have known my fiance since we were twelve, but I feel like I am going to learn so much. This definitely has me anxious for these next couple of months to fly!

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  10. this is so true, and so sweet. I started tearing up a little. marriage is so sweet, isn't it?

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  11. Yes, yes, yes. This is what being married is.

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  12. obsessed with this.

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  13. I think it could also be titled "To be in a loving relationship...." because Chris and I aren't married but we experience this stuff day after day after having lived together for 3 years. But now I'm just being difficult. To Be Married has a better ring to it, anyway... pun intended.

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  14. Anonymous9:43 PM

    So good!

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  15. I don't think you could have made this any better if you had tried! So perfect!!

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  16. I keep trying to convince myself that being single is awesome... But dang girl! This makes me want a guy!

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  17. I can relate to it totally....so nice and perfect.

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  18. Love this post. It is so true.

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  19. Anonymous12:13 AM

    Amazing! Love this so much!

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  20. Beautiful post! I was nodding in agreement at every sentence you wrote :)
    Have a lovely day!

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  21. I love it! This is a truly wonderful post!

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  22. As a newly wed, I could already agree tomost of the sentences. Epsecially to the ones such "to feel pride when he eats all of your food" :)

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  23. I love this post! Thank you for sharing it, every sentence I was bobbing my head up and down even more. "Yup, Yup, Yup, that's us! Yup!" haha, thanks again, I LOVE your blog!!

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  24. Love it! Can't wait! 200 days to go! :)

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  25. so honest and simple yet complex! Love this and want to share it with my husband!

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  26. These words are so perfect! Just making me miss my husband even more since he is on a business trip right now (which is pretty pathetic, he's only been gone for three hours and he comes back tomorrow night. I'm a big baby).

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  27. Anonymous7:38 AM

    I'm not married yet but have been with my boyfriend 6 years next week, and I love your post! :)

    Fiona
    www.greenlovinggirl.com

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  28. Well this is adorable, even the not so good stuff, is lovely.

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  29. That about sums it up :D

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  30. I love this!! So perfect!

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  31. This is everything I've ever thought the perfect marriage should be. Perfectly imperfect, unique and heartwarming. I aspire to this. Thank you for helping us single girls keep the hope alive.

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  32. Love love love this post so much!! The good and the bad, it's all marriage. And it's why I'm married.

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  33. Oh how I love this post!

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  34. Oh my gosh this made me want to cry it is so sweet! This is EXACTLY how I feel about my boyfriend of three years. We have an apartment together and I just wrote a post about the little things that make love everything.

    I love love this.

    Amanda Rose
    http://sewmuchtosay.blogspot.com

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  35. I love this. And I think it's totally acceptable to pick up his toothbrush from the floor and use it. I would've done the same thing :)

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  36. I swear it's like you read my mind!!!

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  37. I love this! I got teary reading it. Y'all sound remarkably like us. Isn't marriage great?? :)

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  38. Anonymous12:02 PM

    What I'm still wondering about is why Greg's toothbrush was on the bedroom floor. Not even the bathroom floor. The bedroom. Of all places. Did he stick it in his pocket for mobile toothbrushery and lose it on his way to the kitchen? Did mischievous bathroom gnomes ferry it off the edge of the sink? Was it ACTUALLY Greg's toothbrush? Does the Larsen household utilize toothbrushes for teeth and toothbrushes for toilet detailing? In which case, is Bonnie suffering from bleach and potty poisoning?

    Princess Burlap
    www.princessburlap.com

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  39. This is amazing, I LOVE it. This is so what marriage is. Thanks for sharing!! :)

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  40. oh I love this! sooo good. every word of it. It's all so true!

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  41. Oh this just tugged on my heart strings! LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

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  42. Beautiful!!! Seriously brought tears to my eyes! :)

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  43. Beautiful Bonnie.

    http://brasshoney.blogspot.com

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  44. This is so beautiful. Love it!

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  45. Oh, I just love this post so much! Marriage is such a fun, wonderful part of life for each one of those reasons.

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  46. this is probably one of my favorite posts of your so far. as i've started dating more seriously and people around me start getting married i've put a lot of thought into what i want in a spouse and what it is to be married. this makes it sound so sweet and quirky (and a little weird at times, but maybe thats just you ;)
    xoxo, lauren
    1sweetfairytale.blogspot.com

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  47. I love this. I love it when ya just write :)

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  48. Anonymous8:06 PM

    I love this. It's so strange how close you become, and how using their toothbrush (off of the floor, no less) doesn't even seem odd at all! :)

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  49. i love love love LOVEd this post! So sweet!

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  50. LOVE! Major love!

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