Thread: Here's to the Dearly Beloved

my SWMBO is the most incredibly patient woman in the world. I jump from passion to passion and have had many hobbies throughout the years we have been married.

The one thing she always marvels at is that I try and become as 'expert' at them as is possible for me to do. Each hobby or skill I have attempted has always cost something, in time, money etc.. but most have always given a payback of some type. One even ended up being what a chose as a career eventually, taking a passion to 'expert' to primary means of support.

Whenever I master one and become bored, I have searched for another to fill the time. At first she viewed them as competition for her time and attentions, eventually she came to realize that if I didn't have something to occupy my thoughts I become a very sad and dull person. She chooses to have a happier husband, even if it does cost us something.

She is the most frugal woman on the planet, having been a single mother for years before we met. Allowing me my hobbies also gives her the right to indulge sometimes, something she deprived herself of for many years.

As for my razors, AS's and colognes, strops, stones and restoration tools that I have invested in over the last year, she has treated it as all my other interests. She knows that eventually I will achieve the state of knowledge that I desire and will file it away in my 'one more thing I'm good at' bank and move on to something else. However, this one is one that gets used every single day. Brings unlimited wonder to her how I can put something so sharp onto my face, etc..

This time though, I bought her and my youngest son DE's of their own so they could sample the joy it gives me to change the boring chore into something exciting and unusual. They both have learned to enjoy it for what it is, just a different way of doing the same old thing!!

I consider myself the most fortunate man in the world to have found such a wonderful, patient and loving woman. I have been blessed, truly blessed.

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