Do You Believe in the "7 Year Itch"???

[Total Refected Power]

Do you believe in this silly notion? My wife and I celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary soon and people are teasing a bit. Never really thought about this contrived myth. Really kind of goofy, especially since we have been together for 14 years.

If anything was "itching" I would have scratched it already.

 

[Czar]

<< If anything was &quot;itching&quot; I would have scratched it already >>



LOL

 

[StageLeft]

Its garbage and if people made too many jokes about it I would get annoyed quite quickly, I bet you did didn't you?

 

[geno]

I've heard of it - but never actually knew what it was - so here it is, the naive quesion of the day:

What's the &quot;7 Year Itch&quot;?

 

[brandc]

Don't really believe in it, but I liked the movie.

 

[Total Refected Power]

Genocide

Never saw the movie but I surmise that it means a couple gets restless (bored?) with each other and have wandering eyes.

Hey, you would have to be dead not to notice a nice-looking person. Hell, where I work there are a ton of nicely dressed professional women but hey I already got mine.

 

[reitz]

Do you believe in the &quot;7 year switch&quot;???

 

[Total Refected Power]

Reitz

I don't even want to know what your asking.

 

[Russ]

TRP,

The seven year &quot;switch&quot; would probably be what happens if one succumbs to the seven year &quot;itch&quot;.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Susan]

Its more like 5 years, but by 7 years it must become unbearable. That's when the sh8t hits the fan.

I don't speak from experience, mind you.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

To prevent the 7 Year Itch, on the eve of your 7th anniversary, give each other a massage with liberal amounts of Lanacane, then the both of you hop between the sheets.

Not 100% guaranteed to cure the 7 Year Itch, but it will definitely make for a HOT time! :Q :Q

 

[Isla]

I don't know. My husband pretty much started wondering if there wasn't someone better out there from the start. It was pretty annoying. He had some pretty screwy expectations, and I didn't fit them the way he wanted me to.

I think he has come to the conclusion that there may be women out there that he has more in common with (he always wondered if a computer chick would be better than me) and I know he has considered the women he has met through work. Just considered as far as I know. He has pretty much come to the conclusion that since I am so &quot;low maintenance&quot; and easy to live with, he'll keep me. He gets all attracted to these other women and then realizes that they are biotches.

How do I know? He tells me these things. During the first year of our marriage he announced that there were probably lots of other women that would be good choices, just different. He aint the brightest crayon in the box when it comes to women, now is he?

As for me, well.... I'm too dang tired to do this again with anybody. I don't care how attractive a guy is, I'm not doing this again! Too much work.

 

[Total Refected Power]

ISLA

Sorry to hear that. People deserve better. I knew that I was going to marry my wife the first time I saw her. Said as much to a buddy sitting next to me. It was in her eyes.

Hey it is naive to believe that anyone could not find someone else in this world but when you find one, hang-on, its nothing better than sharing a history. Its like a secret club, with only two members.

 

[Isla]

TRP

That's sweet! If my husband ever said something like that, I would fall over in shock. The closest he has come to saying anything like that is that he was so afraid God was going to have him marry a woman he wasn't attracted to, and I was a big relief! What a dork. Like God would do that. Sheesh.

I can see it now... God: &quot; See that woman over there who turneth thy stomach? Taketh her for thy wife!&quot;

My husband is the kind of guy who is not easily satisfied. He will buy something and return it ten different times until he gets it right, or THEY get it right, as it were. A bit of a perfectionist!

On the other hand, I'm a little too easily contented at times. I guess we strike a balance somewhere in between now.

At least I know that after all his worrying about whether he made the best choice or not, he realizes now that he couldn't get a better deal anywhere else!

 

[Total Refected Power]

Attraction has its place, but you have to be buddies (not clones). That's what gets you through. Hey, there's always a shiny new penny to look at but to what end? That's why we get to be teens. Flavor of the month.

 

[dennilfloss]

Oops! I thought you meant &quot;17 Year Itch&quot;, which is what happens when one's nether parts get infested with cicadas instead of crab lice.



Seven Year Ache (Rosanne Cash)

 

[raptor13]

Good God, Dennil. That's just not right!

 

[dennilfloss]

Isla,

If your hubby is a perfectionist and you're a contortionist, have no fear. Those marriages last a long, long time, that is, until osteoporosis makes the wife snap one day.

Baby Believe (Tish Hinojosa)

 

[Isla]

ROTFLMAO, Dennil!

I'll be sure to drink as much of the milk of human kindness as I can possibly find!

 

[dennilfloss]

&quot;Good God, Dennil.&quot;



Nothing Changes (The Moody Blues)