Let's get mundane. Who's got a plain-vanilla marriage

[Ellen Forradalom]

like me?

[Alenne]

1. describe plain-vanilla marriage nt

[jobycom]

2. You mean like really bad, separate rooms, only for the kids?

That kind of plain? Or do you mean an okay, sex now and then, a couple of kids, how did I wind up here kind of plain? Or do you just mean hetero with nothing shocking to anyone-- except maybe when you get a little carried away at night...?

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Somewhere between options b) and c)

Not bad, just not noteworthy.

[trof]

3. me

And after 34 years vanilla ain't so bad.
Same bed, separate bathrooms.

[scarlet_owl]

5. I do.

Boring as hell. Hardly any sex (no wonder we haven't had a baby yet). Plain as plain can be. But I'm still crazy about my husband. I could use more sex, however....

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. Are you a student there in Champaign?

[scarlet_owl]

7. No. I have lived here for thirteen years and have never gone

to college. I am an intellectual on my own terms. Anyhoo, no, I'm a homemaker and a volunteer.

[Ellen Forradalom]

14. Ain't it funny?

I'm crazy about my husband too. Wondering how to get more of his attention, though.

[populistmom]

8. Very vanilla

I don't think I'd want anything as spicy as a few of our DUers, but I could go for a bit more than vanilla at times in a lot of areas of a relationship. There's a fine line between contentment and beating your head against a wall. Some days I can be on either side of that line in all honesty.

[TrogL]

9. never actually got around to that

I thought I was doing it, twice, but life proved otherwise.

[sam sarrha]

10. Wife is on Prozac. for 6 years.... more like Tofu

I have loved her for 34 years, I made her Angle Pillow Biscuits shaped like hearts, with heart shaped poached egg in the biscuit. with slices of apple and oranges cut into little hearts piled around the plate for breakfast last weekend. I always make her breakfast during the week, and cook most nites...she doesn't always notice. but thats OK.. I dont do it for the praise.:pals:

[scarlet_owl]

11. Wow. I'm on an array of anti-depressants and the like.

And what do I get? More of his dirty underwear to wash. Your wife is so lucky to have such a romantic sweetie like you! Keep up the good work!

[qwertyMike]

12. I been married 3 times

Don't know what that means.
I been single for ten years now.
I forget the Vanilla bits I guess cos I still want to be married again.

Weekends anyway.

But then you can't rush these things :)

The sex is better single but I guess I miss the dirty underwear thing.

Ho hum

[qwertyMike]

13. The thing about a Vanilla Marriage

is you don't really have to think about things.
It's pretty much planned out: Holidays, weekends, sex, future, and so on.

Being single I find I really have to plan things. Like shopping, weekends, vacation, future. It's more work, and if you let it slip then you can be lonely.

My ex- has a Vanilla marriage, and often she hints at missing the chaos of being married to ME (Yes it was my fault)

Single kind I guess I am.

[sam sarrha]

15. I wash my own underwear, she is left with nothing from to have to deal

with. I keep things so that there is nothing for her to complain about or worry about, she has enough problems. I keep life as easy for her as possible. We are both Buddhists, she practices a form of Japanese Buddhism, I practice Tibetan Buddhism. We have been together most of 32 years and have never had an argument or negative encounters.