I explained that when I was very busy, depressed or both, I didn't tend to blog much. But of course, I said, if I am blogging he was not to assume that I was not busy, not depressed or both, either. He shook his head, saying that he was reminded of a diagram that illustrated his own difficulty in understanding emotions of women in general and me in particular:
True, I said, women [I] need the dials to be fiddled with now and again. The on/off switch doesn't do it for me! Continuing with analogies, I compared women to a wood stove. To keep a fire going, I submitted, you had to put in a log now and again.
"Ah, ha," smiled dh. "So I need to stick a log in the old stove now and again."
This is why analogies of a woman's needs are wasted on men.
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Oh, Cathy, I can relate. Lots of the time I feel as though dh is on auto pilot as far as his relationship to me is concerned. If I am not obviously upset or sad, then nothing at all needs to be done with me. He does reach for my hand, now and then, and I cherish that.
After having a nice dinner out alone for the first time in months with my husband (compliments of Cathy watching my 4 kids), I sat down to surf the internet. After giggling a couple of times, my hubby became interested in what I was reading. I just showed him the picture of the "knobs" and read to him about "putting logs on the fire." His question was....have I put enough logs on the fire? Let's see, a nice quiet dinner alone, a surprise red rose and a mushy card.....yep! That log worked! Thanks Cathy for watching the kids!
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