Nearly two months of being under what feels like house arrest is bound to take its toll on relationships.
Have you quarreled today with your significant other about who left the fridge light on?
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The DeMeers have been married almost 34 years.
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This simple phrase, regardless of whether or not it is actually true, forestalls conflict.
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So how does this work on the ground?
Say you91裸聊视频檝e made plans to go away for the weekend with friends.
Just you. You are going away and your partner has to work.
It91裸聊视频檚 the kind of conversation that requires timing, because the weekend will be somewhat expensive, you will not be home to feed the kids or walk the dog, and you will be having fun.
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Sure it sounds a little, well, mean.
Mr. DeMeer, no doubt, sometimes worries he is experiencing the early onset of dementia.
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It came in very handy just recently, in avoiding an argument about an online purchase which otherwise would have come under unreasonable scrutiny.
Before people jump up and down about the need to shop local and support local, especially in these difficult times, a local business is always my first choice.
If anyone knows of a store in Princeton that sells tiny pieces of rust from the Titanic, I91裸聊视频檇 be admired to hear about it.
Yeah, you read that correctly.
Two weeks ago I paid $218 for a shaving of rust salvaged from the Titanic, nearly two miles beneath the ocean91裸聊视频檚 surface, 400 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
It91裸聊视频檚 called a rusticle. Expecting it to arrive any day now. Hoping it91裸聊视频檚 coming by plane.
In anticipation of its delivery on the weekend, I casually mentioned how I just can91裸聊视频檛 wait to get my rust.
Naturally this created some confusion for Mr. DeMeer.
I ordered a piece of rust from the Titanic. I told you that already.
It wasn91裸聊视频檛 a complete falsehood either. I did, at one point, show him the item on E-Bay. When he remarked on the price, I pointed out the men in this family spend plenty of money on the rust in the driveway.
That discussion had all the potential to become its own little shipwreck.
Instead, I held my tongue, ordered my rust and there wasn91裸聊视频檛 a fight. We sail happily forward to forget the things I didn91裸聊视频檛 say another day.
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