Just Give It Up!

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Lynx

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Simple premise: What would someone who marries you have to give up? I don't mean things that are blatantly unchristian - something innocuous, something absolutely normal, something nobody would think would get on your nerves until you told them.

My aunt Diane has a texture problem with peaches. The fuzz makes her cringe, to the point she can't even stand knowing someone near her is eating a peach. Her poor husband was once indulging in a peach outside, BEHIND HIS TRUCK, and she happened to walk around the corner... "Good grief Diane, I'm eating it outside!" Poor guy tried but he just can't have his peach and spare her too.

On a more serious note, anybody married to someone with a peanut allergy has to give up (gasp!) peanut butter! One lady broke up with her boyfriend (amicably) and a few months later she happened to see him and said, "So what's it like being able to eat peanut butter again?" He replied, "Oh man, we should have broke up long ago!"

On the flip side, what about you would likely get on someone's nerves? Would you give it up? COULD you give it up?

I know for me it would probably be humming. I like music and I'm usually humming or singing to myself. It's almost never loud and obtrusive, but almost always quietly there in the background. I know for a fact that it gets on some people's nerves, and I know for a fact that I can't stop it. Even when I have a cold and my own faulty voice annoys me, I still hum to myself.

So what is it for you? What would someone have to give up to marry you? What might you have to give up that you know annoys some people?
 

seoulsearch

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Simple premise: What would someone who marries you have to give up?
Oh, he wouldn't have to give up much.

Just the little things, you know, those things he'd barely even notice, such as his:

1. extra time

2. extra money

3. any closet space

4. favorite coffee mug (After all, I might like it even more and decide to use it for myself!)

5. hobbies that don't involve us being together all the time

6. favorite t-shirts (I have a thing for t-shirts!)

7. his dignity (I've been known for dragging other grown adults down the toy aisles -- to the stuffed toys, in particular...)

8. any resemblance of having his own life, personality and opinions (gotta do my female duty and fulfill the ever-popular stereotype of being an evil Westernized woman, don't you know!) :D


What?!






Hopefully, most people reading this will know I'm just kidding.

However... Any newcomers will ultimately be kept guessing.




MAYBE this could be why I'm single, but there's still no empirical proof (at least, none that has yet seen the light of day.) :cool:
 

Magenta

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On a more serious note, anybody married to someone with a peanut allergy has to give up (gasp!) peanut butter!
One lady broke up with her boyfriend (amicably) and a few months later she happened to see him and said, "So
what's it like being able to eat peanut butter again?" He replied, "Oh man, we should have broke up long ago!"
There's always almond butter, cashew butter, sunflower butter, and sesame tahini! .:D
 

Lynx

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There's always almond butter, cashew butter, sunflower butter, and sesame tahini! .:D
I found a few jars of tahini.

Oddly I discovered it goes well on a sandwich with gorgonzola cheese on pumpernickle bread. Don't laugh. It was delicious. Pretty strong flavors, but they went well together.
 

CarriePie

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I think I would probably have to give up imitating singers, because I have no doubt that it would be found to be quite annoying. If I'm feelin' it, I'll imitate Axl Rose singing Sweet Child O' Mine. I like imitating other singers, I especially think it's fun to try to reach their vocal ranges. I mention Axl because I was singing Sweet Child O' Mine one evening while working with my friend Tina. She looked at me surprised and said, "You really sound like Axl!" For some reason I can't seem to imitate female singers.
I used to work overnight with a lady who always had the radio on a channel that played 70s disco music, which included Leo Sayer. I'm not into disco, but it was always fun hitting Leo Sayer's high notes and the lady I worked with enjoyed it a lot. We had lots of laughs when we worked together.
I'd no doubt have to give up my best imitation, which is (I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this) Tiptoe Through the Tulips in the likeness of Tiny Tim. My dad told me one day, "Girl, you sound just like Tiny Tim when you do that and it's disturbing! Please, don't do that anymore!" :LOL:

As for what they would have to give up...no killing of spiders in my presence!!! Please, let me relocate the precious thing. Yes, even if it's venomous! I have zero fear of spiders and thus I have no problem relocating any spider. Personally, I'd just let it be to roam where it likes, but I realize that others aren't as keen on them as I am.

Great topic, btw! Now, if you'll excuse me I gotta go as I feel like getting my best Axl voice on, "And pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by...woah oh woah sweet child o' mine..."
 

Susanna

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I think I would probably have to give up imitating singers, because I have no doubt that it would be found to be quite annoying. If I'm feelin' it, I'll imitate Axl Rose singing Sweet Child O' Mine. I like imitating other singers, I especially think it's fun to try to reach their vocal ranges. I mention Axl because I was singing Sweet Child O' Mine one evening while working with my friend Tina. She looked at me surprised and said, "You really sound like Axl!" For some reason I can't seem to imitate female singers.
I used to work overnight with a lady who always had the radio on a channel that played 70s disco music, which included Leo Sayer. I'm not into disco, but it was always fun hitting Leo Sayer's high notes and the lady I worked with enjoyed it a lot. We had lots of laughs when we worked together.
I'd no doubt have to give up my best imitation, which is (I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this) Tiptoe Through the Tulips in the likeness of Tiny Tim. My dad told me one day, "Girl, you sound just like Tiny Tim when you do that and it's disturbing! Please, don't do that anymore!" :LOL:

As for what they would have to give up...no killing of spiders in my presence!!! Please, let me relocate the precious thing. Yes, even if it's venomous! I have zero fear of spiders and thus I have no problem relocating any spider. Personally, I'd just let it be to roam where it likes, but I realize that others aren't as keen on them as I am.

Great topic, btw! Now, if you'll excuse me I gotta go as I feel like getting my best Axl voice on, "And pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by...woah oh woah sweet child o' mine..."
I remember hearing Sweet Child of Mine when I was 12 or 13, this was back in the late eighties. It was soooo good. I even tried to learn that guitar solo to impress a boy at school lol.
 

Subhumanoidal

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For me scented or strong chemical things, candles, air fresheners, lysol, etc... and if they were to wash my clothes I'd need scent free soap, so far there's only one brand I've found that doesn't bother me. Wearing perfume is another.
Smaller things like hand soap are fine.
Being near these sorts of things can cause me to have something as minor as the sniffles or as major as trouble breathing and headaches.
 

Karlon

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the only thing i gave up when i engaged in matrimony was thinking of & pleasing myself at the rate i used to when single.
 
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When I was with my prior relationship in 2005, the biggest disparity (aside from neither of us following God properly at the time), was that I was and still am a fan of Michael Jackson and his music. She was convinced that he hurt kids, and no amount of evidence I gave her would sway her opinion. It got to the point that if I listened to him around her, I'd have to wear headphones...because otherwise I got this deadly stare shoved my way.