Love and Hate: Marriage

I really don’t even know how we got on the topic. I’m sure it was me. I probably asked something ridiculous, hahah, like how we women often do. It led me to ask my husband what he loved about me.

He said a bunch of things, like most happy husbands do, haha. “But there is one thing,” he said, “that I love and hate.” That got my ears tingling.

“Love and hate?” I asked. Puzzled. My husband. MY HUSBAND would NEVER admit to hating anything about me.

“Yes, your moral compass,” he said matter-of-factly. “No matter what the subject, no matter who the person, you always have to do or say the right thing. The correct thing.”

I chuckled. “Yeah, that’s true. I do that.” I could see why that would be a love-and-hate thing.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love that about you, but sometimes…,” he trailed off.

That conversation got me thinking whether there was something I loved and hated about him. At the moment, I couldn’t think of a single thing, but don’t worry, it came to me later that week, hahah.

As you all know, my husband is older than I am, so he has seen and experienced the world more than I have. I love this about him. Why? Because I love knowledge. I love to learn. It is one of the many things that make our marriage work. If you are not learning from one another, then what are you all doing? Anyways, I digress.

We were on a date at a Middle Eastern restaurant. The vibe on my side of the table: romantic. The vibe on his side of the table: Teacher. He had his teaching hat on while I was wearing my rose colored glasses. Not to say that I didn’t enjoy all the new information, because I did. I’m a nerd like that. So it works for us.

So, we’re sitting on the couch a few days later, and I tell him. “You know what I love and hate about you?” He swivels around in his office chair to look at me. “You sometimes put your teaching hat on at the wrong time.” He chuckled and nodded, “Yes, I do that, huh?”

Is there anything about your husband that drives you crazy in a good way and a bad way?