Musings:On the Carriage of Marriage for 25 + years.

All of us will board/boarded, the carriage of marriage at one time or the other.
For those who have carried it thus far, its time to reflect.
Those who intend to board and not get bored while on board, please sit back reflect to learn , as its always better to learn from others experiences.

Compiled below : is a collection of reflections that are not only funny, but are some-what true conclusions, and they are floating around on the net quite aggressively.

The vein of humour running within each one of them is a sort of tickler too,that will not only make you smile, it will muse you, for a while for sure, once you are done with the reading.

Those of us,who have completed/are about to complete, 25 years of marriage or, are in the 25th year,would like to enjoy the ride on this 'the conclusions carriage', by firming up a resolve to see another 25 years, and consider this collection as a mid way mile stone on the way to 50 years milestone.

To make it easy for you to recall/envision unique experience(s) I have split them: the sticky,tricky,prickly 25 years, lived/to be lived, alias, carried/to be carried forth, on the carriage of marriage,into phases of five years each as a set of five years lived/to be lived, sticking as stuck together.

Any complex problem, when divided into smaller bits, is easy to tackle with ticklishly speaking.By splitting into five sets here, I am trying to tickle tickle too, to tackle the mother of all must-be lived-and-loved;problems. Marriage.

Lets begin to tackle the five, five year sets as 'TICKLERS for STICKLERS' who have stuck together for 25 years/or more. Lets tackle and tickle also for the benefit of those who are about to board the 'carriage of marriage' so that they dont get bored and stick together as sticklers too, with the help of these ticklers.


The first set of Five TICKLERS for STICKLERS:


1. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore marriage is an institution for the blind.

2. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her masters.

3.Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.

4. Married life is full of excitement and frustration: In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year,
the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year and there after, they both
speak and the NEIGHBOR listens.

5. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After the marriage the "Y" becomes silent.


These, the first 5 TICKLERS for STICKLERS should help/make you think and fall back on your initial 5 years,and may be perhaps, help you reflect on whatever truth factor is hidden within them.



The second set of Five TICKLERS for STICKLERS:


6. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

7. They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love; after marriage it is self-defense.


8. A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking; the husband gives and the wife takes. 

9.   Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, and when you see what the other person has , you wish you had ordered that instead.

10. . When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.


There you are: your carriage of marriage has come to a halt at the 10th miles stone.Almost half way to 25 Years.Together to gather.Do step down, stretch your legs,sip a cup of coffee, and get your bearings.Reconcile and be happy, let others wonder.



The third set of Five TICKLERS for STICKLERS:


11.Son: Is it true Dad? I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her. Father: Not only in China,that happens everywhere, son,EVERYWHERE!


12.There was this man who muttered a few words in the church and found himself married. Ten years later he muttered something in his sleep and
found himself divorced.


13.When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.


14. There was this lover who said that he would go through hell for her. They got married, and now he is going through HELL. 

15. Marriage is not a word. It's a sentence (a life sentence)


Having perseveringly lived and loved all that for all this while, its time now for:


The fourth set of five TICKLERS for STICKLERS:


17. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America, the rest cheat in Europe. 

18. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't face each other, but they still stay together. 

19. Marriage is man and a woman becomes one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one. 

20. I married Miss right; I just didn't know her first name was Always. 



The penultimate set of Five TICKLERS for STICKLERS:


21. It’s not true that married men live longer than single men, it only seems longer. 


22.  Grand Son: How much does it cost to get married, Grand Dad?
Grand Father: I don't know son, I'm still paying for it.


23.  A man was complaining to a friend: I HAD IT ALL-MONEY, A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, THE LOVE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, THEN POW! IT WAS ALL GONE. WHAT HAPPENED, asked his friend. He says MY WIFE FOUND OUT.


24. WIFE: Let's go out and have some fun tonight.
HUSBAND: OK, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway lights on.


25. At a party, one woman said to another: AREN'T YOU WEARING YOUR RING ON THE WRONG FINGER? The other replied, YES, I, AM. I MARRIED THE WRONG MAN.
 


And now a bonus!!! too.

The Final set of Five TICKLERS for STICKLERS:

As a bonus!!! for having stuck along for 25 years and to propel you into the next 25 years.



26. When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure
of one thing - either the car is new or the wife is.


27. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

28. A man inserted an ad in the paper - WIFE WANTED. The next day he received a hundred of letters and they all said the same thing - YOU CAN HAVE MINE.
 

29. Man is incomplete until he gets married, then he is finished.

30. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.




Axee
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Arun