13-02-2014, 12:31 PM
Thank you so much, Lisa. I also found your post both illuminating and immensely helpful.
When I think about it, the essence of marriage is a union between two very different persons, and a successful marriage is full of accommodations relating to many different issues, some arrived at only painfully, but most such issues are not as big as an elephant, let alone a pink elephant. I'm hoping that my wife and myself can complete an arrangement to accommodate the elephant but we still may have a way to go. Your warning not to allow things to fester is well taken.
On a lighter note, and by a strange coincidence, the Landrover in which I drove to Pakistan so many years ago had had what appeared to be pink elephants blazoned on its front doors, though these had been more or less painted out by the time I bought it. It had previously been driven to Burma on an expedition Second Overland, by two members of the first expedition (First Overland) to drive overland from England to Singapore, in search of a rumoured white elephant, which in the event turned out in fact to be a real live PINK ELEPHANT.
Hugs again from Annie for you and Sammie.
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Annabel, Not to hijack Sammie's thread, but thanks for the kind comment. In my travels I have known way to many people in some form of relationship who let a disagreement destroy the relationship, when all they needed to do was discuss it, listen to the other person's position, and accept and respect it... Yes, that's a simplistic explanation, but you got my drift. It ain't rocket science, just simple human relations. I am a flaming liberal in most things, yet my family and most of my close friends are very conservative Southerners (aka Rednecks!), but they know my position and I know theirs, and we still love each other and get along with each other!
That is a cool anecdote on the elephant BTW...
Good luck with the wife!
Sorry Sammie, as they say... Now back to our regular programming!
XOOX,
Lisa