like steak and cheesecake - apples and oranges, or roddick and fed, or why marriage works

[bolton carley]

“Another bad day at work?”

“Yeah, and my boy, Andy, announced his retirement today, too.”

“Saw that and knew you’d be in a state of depression.”

“You just don’t understand what it’s like to love something that much, to work so hard at perfecting an art and have so few people be impressed by your efforts knowing that your best just isn’t good enough to the point of wondering if you wasted your life on an unattainable goal…”

“Did it ever occur to you that he may just be thrilled to have millions and a supermodel wife and that some people are just happy to get through their day without major disaster; that most people wouldn’t give it that much thought?”

“Yeah, but did it ever occur to you that you didn’t pick those other people, that you married me?”

[bolton carley]

sorry i was late getting back to you all.  kristine - marriage is work, but better than being single! :)

gita and toby - i am curious which part is novel - the choice of topic, the knowing one's depressed, or something else?

bill - you're right.  now if i could just have a conversation with andy roddick to know the real answer. :)

mike - i ask those things all the time.  gets me in trouble. :)

[Mike Handley]

I have these conversations with myself all the time. I wish more people asked of themselves, "Did it ever occur to you that ..."

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

Mine neither.  Even the first line is foreign.

[Gita]

This is a conversation that would never occur in our house. I'm impressed by its novelty.

[Kristine_ES]

*sigh*  marriage is work for all mortals, perhaps even moreso for supermodels and their millionaires.