marriage
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Marriage Is Awesome And Amazing And All That Great Shit. It's Also Hard As Fuck.
Last week, The Wife Person and I had a “we’re not arguing, but we’re not completely good” four day stretch that began while binge watching Game of Thrones and ended in the parking lot of a Market District Giant Eagle. We celebrated the end of our mini cold war with gelato shakes and pizza, and listened to Radiohead’s…
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On Being A Diehard Sports Fan…And Marrying Someone Who Doesn't Give A Shit About Sports
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the NBA playoffs. This, the two month span between mid-April and mid-June, is my favorite time of the year. Not my favorite sports time. There are no qualifiers. No other time of year — not my birthday, not Thanksgiving, not the season premiere of Hannibal — gives me as much…
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Intimacy Compatibility: The Most Underrated Part Of A Happy Relationship
Rarely does a week pass without someone asking me what married life is like. I usually provide the same answer (“It’s…just like life before marriage. Except now you have God’s blessing to have sex in Macy’s dressing rooms.”), but it always feels incomplete. Mainly because the best way to describe married life is to provide…
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Things Learned After Buying My Wife A Bunch Of Flowers And Shit
(Disclaimer: I’m aware there are people who think that, since getting married, I’ve dedicated the bulk of my writing to marriage-related topics. I’m also aware that some of these people are tired of me writing about marriage-related topics. If I were the type of person who said things like “You know, out of the 142…
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Being A Husband Means You Kill The Maggots
Like many other public speakers, the pastor at my church loves to use metaphors and analogies when he speaks. A reading from scripture where Jesus played pick-up basketball with Paul is really a lesson about sacrifice. A story about that time John the Baptist got sick after eating too much kettle corn is really an…
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I'm Someone's Husband? Me? Really?
(Damon’s latest at EBONY on the word “husband” and how he doesn’t quite feel like one — or at least the movie version of one — yet) When I think of a husband, I think of a character Dennis Haysbert or Danny Glover or some other deep-voiced, barred chested man would play in a family…
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Skinny Jeans And Jordans And…A Gray Hair? Wait…Am I Having A Mid-Life Crisis?
I first noticed the gray hair in my beard a couple months ago. It’s on the left side of my face, attached to my jawbone, a barely-detectable dot of silver amid a sea of black. People don’t see it unless I alert them to it. Even then, I’ve had it mistaken for a speck of salt.…