When you’re in a long-term romantic relationship, whether it’s a marriage or a domestic partnership, it’s not always easy to maintain the “magic” of the early days you and your beloved spent together. Relationships are hard work if you want to be happy, and when you’re with someone from the time you’re a teenager or in your 20s, you can build up a lot of baggage over the years. It’s easy enough to start over with a whole new relationship, but the really successful people make it work with the person they’ve built a foundation with. That’s what needs to be celebrated, those adventurous souls who go the long haul in a marriage. In the joke below, you’ll meet a man who forgot that “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Revenge is never a good thing, but it’s fun to imagine that now and then a cheater gets what they deserve.
A husband wrote the following letter for his wife and left it on the dining room table:
“To My Dear Wife,
You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you and I value you as a good wife. Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope that you will not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18 year old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel.
Please don’t be upset -I shall be home before midnight.”
When the man came home late that night, he found the following letter on the dining room table:
“My Dear Husband, I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about my being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. As you know, I am a math teacher at our local college. I would like to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the Hotel Fiesta with Michael, one of my students, who is also the assistant tennis Coach. He is young, virile and like your secretary, is 18 years old.
As a successful businessman who has an excellent knowledge of math, you will understand that we are in the same situation, although with one small difference: 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18.
Therefore, I will not be home until sometime tomorrow.”
