Marriage Lessons learned

Ladies, does your husband have an obsession with something that you either don’t understand or don’t really care to hear about? It could be video games, cars, or could even be himself. I think all men have at least one and as his wife, he loves talking about it and talking about it to you because he knows you’ll listen as long as you can stand it. My husband has several obsessions that I’ve known about from the beginning and took them in stride because I would always go back to my place. He could obsess without me whining and I wouldn’t have to endure listening to the obsession. Now...of course has changed since my place is his place and vice versa. Months prior to the wedding, I noticed that he talked about Star Wars more than usual. Before that, he would mention the movie or make a face when I would say I’ve only seen one of the movies all the way through once and didn’t really care for it. I would write it off because we have a long list of movies that he love that I haven’t seen or don’t care to see and every time he would make the same disgusted face. One night I finally broke down and watched the second Star Wars Family Guy episode. We love Family Guy and he said we have to watch this. We watched it while placing the movie on pause every ten minutes because he either wanted to point out something or I would ask him to explain who was who and what was what. It was good but like I said before, we love Family Guy so I didn’t think anything about it. After we turned it off, he said we are going to watch all the Star Wars movies on a rainy day. I did my usual and said no that’s okay. You can do that while I’m at my house. His response (that I am now used to because he said so much) was “Baby, in a few months, this will be your house. You’ll have to watch with me because we’ll be married.” Even though he said that in a joking way, it hit me right then that there will be times that because we’re married, I will be doing certain things that I don’t want to and vice versa. All of this leads to now we’re married and he wants to read to me the history of Star Wars and the back story of all main characters. I was so bored but he looked so proud to read it to me. All I kept thinking was “I must really love this man because I am sitting here listening to the history of Star Wars.” First rule of marriage I’ve learned was being supportive. He and I are going to go see Janet Jackson in August. Second rule: compromise.