Sparks (and any other interested guys whose wives pop in and out of their homes) - I propose a "pointless" experiment. Tomorrow on your way home from work, stop and buy some flowers. Don't go nuts $-wise- something simple from the grocery store will work. Don't get the busiest arrangement. Go for simple - all one or two colors or just roses. If you're in doubt, ask a random woman to help you pick. Go home, cut the bottom inch off the stems at an angle (let's them soak up water and live longer), put them in a clean vase or glass, make sure no leaves are in the water (strip them off) and put them on your kitchen counter. That's right, your counter...you just bought yourself flowers.

1) Was it hard to do? Probably not. But that little thing means a lot to the women in your lives - mothers/daughters/wives. File that away and think about it later...or maybe get your D or mother some flowers.
2) Flowers are nice. Hopefully they'll brighten your day for a week or so. You're probably missing some of those nice feminine touches lately. Much easier than washing all the sheets/towels (one of the things I know my H misses)
3) Let us know what W says when she sees them. She'll prob be a little mad...chances are she's not gotten any flowers lately (maybe in a long time). A 180 maybe - being in touch with a softer, romantic, and random side of yourself. Stopping to smell the roses?

And don't forget mother's day. Help your kid make a card or something. Especially a 1st M's day. Trace his little hand on the inside of a greeting card.

I think skipping the wedding is a good decision. Too much pressure right now. Weddings/happy marriage people who don't know you arent/potential that she may or may not be nice that day? Go have fun and let her wonder who you are dancing with!


Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
--Stanislaw Lem