How Mixture Causes Relationships

I tell my kids, don’t walk into a relationship like it was a moving truck. Take your father and me. We didn’t offer ourselves as targets to God so why should you? I’m not talking here about the strangeness of it all. Or the remarkable story about my eating sauerkraut before coming to bed. Just sex, which is something necessary in one’s life along with a knife and fork.

I also tell my kids I can’t stand relationships that are not concentrated and they shouldn’t either. That’s the beginning of selfish streets. Same for enhancing a man or a woman’s ineptitude by floating their failures past your friends. I don’t advise that, either. First you’ll be petulant, and then unnecessary in someone’s life. Finally – and here’s the chaff – you’ll be, “So what?” People will say of you, “She’s terrific. I can’t stand her.”