Life

the trivial aspects of a relationship

Doesn’t it just totally suck that we have this biological urge to have a partner? sometimes I almost wish for a monogamous lifestyle that is complete and happy on its own. The troubles of a relationship are almost constant but to a large degree are merely trivial. To be honest….I blame the parents!

Two people who have been brought up from different cultures, countries, and backgrounds. It’s almost asking for trouble, we get brought up with certain morals, and disciplines. Things as a child you get told you must not do or must do. What brought this blog on? Well the simple and rather trivial issue this evening over dinner.

As a child I was always told that it was a matter of respect and discipline that everyone must wait before eating for everyone to join the table. A respect for people that are cooking, preparing, tidying or just on their way. I can see it as I have grown up as a rather logical and rational thing. To discipline you even when hungry to wait until the rest are around.

Yet this evening, after I finished cooking a rather tasty smelling pasta my other half busy with her concessions for the evening (a traditional salad of some sort) I was told by my partner to start eating. Obviously my built in discipline of childhood kicks in to prevent this, I inform her as I have often done in the past that I will not until everyone is ready, regardless of the fact that I have not eaten all day. Just a matter of respect and discipline. So I leave for a while to let her and her cousin finish cooking, I return 10min later to find them busy eating away without having mentioned anything to me. Well it wasn’t as tragic as only one of them was eating. Yet just the whole mood was rather frustrating.