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Anthony was flying home from a business trip when, just to prove the seventies were not dead, the woman next to him asked, “What’s your sign?”
He told her. He told her mine as well.
She shook her head at the hopelessness of it all “A water sign and an earth sign? She’s emotional, you’re logical you’ll never understand each other.”
When he told me the story, we laughed. To think that anyone would predict the future of our new marriage knowing nothing about us but our birthdays! He squinted at me, I bit my lip.
“We balance each other,” I said.
“Right,” he said, bobbing his head too hard.
Sometimes Anthony and I remind me of a couple I once saw on “The Newlywed Game.”
“How far did you go before you were married?” Bob Eubanks asked.
“Third base,” the wife answered promptly. Her husband said, “San Diego.”
Anthony says I don’t listen, get too emotional, jump to conclusions. I say he wouldn’t waste so much time making decisions if he’d trust his intuition.
He says we’ll never work out our differences if I don’t explain my positions more rationally. I say we’ll never get anywhere if he doesn’t learn to take emotions-changeable, immeasurable, illogical, and very real-into account.
We are both equally convinced we are right. Perhaps we have something in common, after all.
