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The other major sore spot in the marriage was Scott's love for X-box. This sore spot started on our honeymoon. We rented a house in Rosemary Beach that was equipped with a large, flat screen television and an X-Box, and I thought that Scott could play the X-box on that trip if there were times that I wanted to lie out in the sun, and he didn't want to. No problem, right? Wrong. That X-box took over, and it even created some arguments on the honeymoon. Ah, the memories. So, I had a bad taste in my mouth over the X-box from the very beginning.
Well, often on the weekends, Scott would "go to bed early" with me (not that early--11:00, midnight even), and then, I would wake up to find him sitting on the end of the bed playing a football game on X-box. The first few times this happened, I calmly asked him to turn it off and come to bed. Seriously, we had several conversations about this. Well, one night, I reached my breaking point. I woke up to find him once again sitting on the end of the bed, in the middle of the night, playing X-box, and I just snapped. I jumped out of bed, started yelling, throwing pillows at him--it was bad. I am pretty sure he didn't play X-box in the middle of the night after that. We laugh about it now, but it is such a picture of the adjustment that first year was.
So, babe, thanks for no longer playing X-box in the middle of the night, and I am thinking that yelling and throwing pillows was not the most Christ like way I could have handled the situation, so please, forgive me. I am thankful we survived the whole X-box catastrophe. It was a low point, wasn't it;)
These days, we stumble into bed around 10:00, exhausted as can be. We no longer feel the need to argue over that one. Thank you parenthood for solving that problem in our marriage.
5 comments:
Thank you for throwing pillows at me and not the large dehumidifier that we had to keep beside the bed because we lived in a basement.
And wasn't it just a few weeks ago that you were throwing pillows at me because I wanted to go to bed at 10 and you wanted to sit up?
Happy Anniversary and I love you.
Just wanted to say that my husband and I had the same issue, except it was the PlayStation. And I won. And I didn't have to throw anything at him...but it doesn't mean I didn't want to :)
Happy Anniversary!
P.S. Those pictures were taken on the day my son Andrew was born :)
It is crazy how time flies! And oh the lessons we learn during our first years of marriage.
What a fun post! It made me think back to our first year, too. And yes, we had a 500 sf apt in Atlanta (NOT midtown of course) that came with a lot of crazy arguments and fun times! Happy Anniversary!
Hi! I just peeked at your blog and laughed at the x-box thing. My husband loves his too...oh the adjustments : ) Happy Anniversary!
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