Relationship Bytes

True Story 1
A girl can't be bothered studying for her final school exams. She hopes her friends would hurry up so they could all go to the beach. The girl finishes school and gets a job licking envelopes at an unheard of publishing company in the middle of nowhere. She gets fined twice in her first week for parking illegally. The girl can't handle this and quits after a week. The girl gets a job at the company where I (and she) work now. She meets a guy who sits across from her. They have lunch together every day, telling everyone they're just friends. Five years later, they get married.

True Story 2
A woman's mother-in-law keeps asking the woman's husband if his wife nags him a lot. The woman vows never to nag her husband just to spite her mother-in-law.

The woman asks her husband to do some handiwork. She gives him a week to do it. She can never ask her husband to do something twice because that would satisfy her mother-in-law, something that cannot happen under any circumstances. He doesn't do it so she gets out all his tools to do it herself. The husband asks her what she's doing. She says she asked him to do it but since he hasn't, she decided to do it herself. The husband is protective of his tools and tells her he's going to do it right now himself.

The woman's mother-in-law visits them. She asks her son if his wife nags him. He can only say no.

True Story 3
A woman's husband says he's going hunting on the weekend. She says she's going out with her friends on the weekend. He says she can't. She gets annoyed. She says, "But you're going hunting!" and he says, "It's not the same." She says he tells her what she can wear and can't. He's possessive. She excuses it, saying she's the most jealous person so she knows where he's coming from. The woman from True Story 1 says to tell him that she's going hunting too, hunting for men. She's joking and everyone laughs. The woman doesn't. She can't even imagine how angry her husband will be if she tells him that.

When the woman leaves, the woman from True Story 1 says that she doesn't understand how you can have a relationship without trust. The woman from True Story 2 agrees.

True Story 4
A 29 year old woman spends her days working and studying. She desperately wants to meet that special someone but can't. She says Australian men in their 20s are like teenagers in adult bodies. Only on the lookout for a something short-term. She wants someone mature and serious. The woman from True Story 1 asks her to describe her type so she can keep her eye out for someone. The woman says that she doesn't want a 'Perfect Man'. All she wants is someone to give her a feeling of peace and contentment. That's all she wants.

True Story 5
Someone sits quiety listening to older women's tales of life. She wants to tell them her type so they can be on the lookout for her too. But after the woman from True Story 4, no one would feel like this one needs any help, being so young compared to them. They say wistfully that she has her whole life ahead of her. She doesn't think they understand that having your whole life ahead of you without anyone to share it with takes most of the enjoyment out of it.