Ah, the joy of finding your one true love.  After the courtship, you both dreamed of a big, beautiful wedding.  And at last, the wedding day came!  Almost everything went as planned and this is the happiest day in a bride’s life.

Alas, reality knocks at the door almost as soon as the bride is left alone with her groom.  Enter the predicaments of a newly-wed.

Predicament #1: The Bowel Queen.  How do you tell your groom to leave you alone in the bathroom when you are using it?  Especially, you know, when you will not just urinate.  I had the same predicament on my wedding day.  When I entered the bathroom, I was going to do something else besides urinate–the contents of my bowels are begging to be removed after a week-long hiatus brought about by the tension of getting married!  Imagine my consternation when my new husband followed me even before I have locked the door, saying he’s going to brush his teeth.  How in the world can I concentrate in what I was doing? I can’t even dare let him hear the noises I normally do in synch with my bowel movement.  Instead, I just painfully smiled at him as he looked at me lovingly through the mirror.

Predicament #2: Time Alone No More.  How do you tell your new husband to leave you alone? I’ve been single for a long time that when I got married, I felt my privacy ended.  Especially when I wanted to be alone in the room.  When I was not yet married, I loved being alone.  My time to reflect, read a book, watch television, to think of anything I want, to simply just be alone.  But when you get married, you are never alone.  I remember on the first day after the wedding, I closed the door of our room in my husband’s face because I wanted to be alone.  Believe me, you couldn’t describe the look on his face.  It goes, “Whaat?!” Later (of course), I realized it was not just my room anymore, but OUR room–my husband and I.  So I set aside my singleness and solitary time, and pursued a frenzied, noisy life with my husband and eventually, our children–and no room of my own. (But sometimes, I cheat: I go to the bathroom and read my book in thankful silence.)

Predicament #3: Suppressed Shopping.  I think this one is self-explanatory.  You couldn’t buy that thing you’ve wanted for a long time without consulting or asking your husband.  I love shoes (who doesn’t?) and I have to explain first in full detail to my new husband why that blue, high-heeled pair of shoes has to be bought while on sale, on the second day of our honeymoon.  The expression on his face mirrored the look he gave me when I shut the door on him on our first day together.  So now I have to contend, most  of the times, to just look at the things I want and ending up not buying them after my husband gives his verdict.  (But then again, sometimes I end up having them–with my husband paying for them, of course.) 

See, it’s not always bliss and thrill for the newly-wed bride.  I think every bride comes face-to-face with the aforementioned situations, and, well, we just have to deal with them. 

 After all, now, when either me or my husband enters the bathroom and finds the other sitting on the toilet bowl, we playfully exchange these words: “Wow, that smells bad!” to which the inevitable quip would be: “Don’t complain, you’re the one who smelled it.” And hilarious laughter follows.

1. Merabsobbyrag Says:
   April 28th, 2010 at 1:32 pm

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2. Mila Widera Says:
   June 9th, 2010 at 12:43 am

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3. Felton Bergey Says:
   June 9th, 2010 at 8:40 pm

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