Being a bit lazier than usual, I decide to keep typing, hoping I can finish my post before I totally run out of battery.
I didn't make it.
Without a final warning, the screen goes blank...dead...no more typing.
Still not wanting to leave the warmth of my bed I decide to access my drive from my smaller but ever faithful smart phone.
This works for a short while but it also starts in with the warnings. Sheesh!
I may take a lesson here, when my own batteries are just about exhausted I will give a couple of warnings and then just shut down!
Enter my better half of 28 years.
I can tell how much he is looking forward to joining me in bed.
However, my frustrated voice tells him that my electronics have let me down.
Sighing, he searches for an extension cord and plugs in the many cords of gadgets at my bedside.
I gather that by the way he is sighing he feels I am a bit high maintenance.
As I repeat that phrase to him he breaks out in laughter, recognizing that I hit the nail on the head!
We enjoy a give and take relationship of being high maintenance in our marriage.
He is a very picky eater, taste and texture are high on his list of priorities for food.
He has for a small variety of foods that he enjoys, but they are only fully enjoyed if prepared correctly.
Taco meat is best if finely chopped.
Steak must be fully cooked, no pink, hockey puck style.
Chocolate dessert or berry pie cannot be consumed without ice cold milk.
We have very different relationships with food, I love it all.
Enough said.
Well, no liver or anything weird.
Taco meat, any size works for me.
Steak is best with flavor, hockey pucks are not too flavorful.
Dessert? Yum! With or without milk. Espresso is my preference though.
High maintenance? For sure!
However, for me, navigating an airport other than our own, is only easily navigated if chopped up into small pieces much like his taco meat.
My once soft, easily molded character is occasionally hardened by life's struggles, transforming me into the hockey puck from too much heat.
We have a real marriage.
We are all a little high maintenance, especially with our spouses.
Isn't this how we are instructed to be?
Ok not high maintenance per say, but submitting to the needs and desires of our spouse?
Submission, respect, loving each other.
All examples from the word of God on being high maintenance.
He puts up with my technology challenged frustrations and I prepare food for him however he likes it.
High maintenance, low maintenance....but maintenance is the key word here.
Sometimes our scales get a bit unbalanced...one needing more maintenance for a season than the other.
However always seeking to maintain our marriage in a manner pleasing to the creator of the oldest of all covenants....marriage.
Love this !!
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