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Funny relationship moment from this morning that I wanted to share. Even though my wife knows I love her a lot, she is someone who craves romantic gestures. I am not terribly romantic in that sense - I default to practical or literal responses instead. The intuition for that type of response and when it's appropriate/expected just isn't there. So we've been practicing about it.

When my job started getting really bad, we started saying "have a good day at work" to each other. I finally left that job on Friday. But today wife was standing by the front door ready to leave, when she turns around somewhat expectantly. And I'm like, "Don't you have to go?" And she says, "You gotta say the thing."

It takes me a few seconds before I have the lightbulb moment and shout, "Oh! Have-a-good-day-at-work!" like a kid getting the right answer at a spelling bee. She was so endeared she picked me up and squeezed me about it.

He can be taught.
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A thing that has occurred to me, and had not done so before I became a married man, was that wedding rings are something that takes getting used to.

Even during the reception dinner, I had to go use the bathroom and then briefly baffled myself as to how to wash my hands around the ring. I find myself constantly removing it because I worry about it getting dirty during dinner prep, or accidentally scratching my wife with the gem when I am cuddling. (And more embarrassingly, accidentally injuring myself on it. Either because I am not used to it there, or just because it is a metal object with sharp gemstones in it.) I think it is also not helped much be being just a Smidge larger than my left hand ring finger, so that it slides or goes cockeyed instead of staying snug and centered. Hilariously, it fits perfectly on the right hand's ring finger, so perhaps all I need to do is work out my left hand until it fits.

I have a silicon ring for work purposes, a much more snugly fitting band that is more unobtrusive and can fit within a glove. We were able to find a matching one that fit my wife, with a bit of stretching. For all that the nice wedding ring looks really cool and is a nice piece of jewelry, I think I would rather have a band instead of a thing with gems inset. Or perhaps I just need to get this ring refit so it doesn't slide around so much.

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