Hello Everyone:
The weekend is pretty much status quo. I overheard mom trying to schedule a day with a cleaning service she uses before Passover. They do a thorough job, getting all the details. If this pans out, I'll be very happy because it'll mean I don't have to do anything on the way of cleaning. Speaking of mom, I think she's carrying too muc with her phantom stomach menace. If you ask me, I think her symptoms have disappeared and now she's just saying she feels bad for the attention. I hope I never get that way, resorting to hypochondria as a way to get attention and sympathy. In the beginning, I felt some compassion for her because she didn't feel well. Now, it seems she's recovered and just playing on my good nature. Mom is still waiting to hear about one more test result. The first one came back negative. Frankly, I think it'll be the same for the second.
In other news, I came across an article on Friday in one of Jewish community newspapers about an interracial/interfaith couple like the Brit BF and I. They made their relationship into a reality-sit-com for a cable station. It caught my attention because it can easily apply to us: a couple from to different cultures getting married. What I found lacking was the discussion of their relationship dynamics: she's white and Jewish; he's Afro-American Christian who converted. I was looking read how they deal with family and friend's reactions, how they interact in each other's environment, how they reconcile their cultural difference beyond making fun of stereotypes and so forth. All of that is important to me because I still feel like I'm flailing about in this relationship. I get tongue tied and end sounding like a complete idiot. It's strange because with other guys I don't feel so clumsy, with the Brit BF, I feel like such a fool sometimes. So it would be useful to see how a couple in similar circumstances is dealing with the relationship dynamics in an honest thoughtful manner, beyond poking fun of the cultural stereotypes.
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