MARRIED PEOPLE REVIEW: TRICK QUESTIONS OR NEW COMMITTMENTS

Five guys were going over the rules of married people with a past.

The question was what to disclose to a wife and what to leave out.

The men agreed that no good comes from giving too much personal history, but no one said why. I’ll help:

Never mention hotels you stayed in at the Oregon coast before marriage. Your wife doesn’t care. Besides, you’ll never stay there again.

After a honeymoon at the coast, lock into the idea that you’ve only been to a motel with one person in your life. Ever.

If you happen to drive by a place you know, try not to get into details, like why you know so much about the theme rooms in a place you’ve never been to with your wife.

If it’s in the past and not a problem, don’t stir things up. It’ll only go bad. You have memories? Good for you. Keep them to yourself. Why? Because she has memories, too.

If you start up the ‘way back machine’ she might take a spin. Do you want that?

Topics To Avoid

Don’t review great road trips you took with a true love at the time. Leave that map in the map drawer.

What if you’ve never taken a roadie with a girlfriend? Even better. Don’t add anything new. No regret, no wish list. Just don’t, or you might hear about the epic roadie your wife took with an early boyfriend.

Now, I know married people should be safe and secure in their relationships. Married, right? But if your wife starts talking about her big 70’s road trip with a hippie god, and he starts sounding like he could have been ‘The One’, then who are you again?

Save on the doubts and second guessing and just keep quiet.

Finally, try not to imagine your partner’s life for them if they hadn’t married you. If it goes the other and they start on what they know of your past, who you would have married, and what a disaster it would have been, turn a deaf ear.

You guys, you married people, kept it simple, but not stupid.