The darkside..
Bit then I took her out, and we got dirty…

Self Belief
Django Reinhardt

Earplugs. Her snoring could wake the dead.

Avocado, asparagus, financial management and a life without hastle

Loads of nice food stuffs I hadn’t previously tried.
Gin and Tonic.
Theatre.
Fitness.
Me having a beardy face being a good thing.
Well made salads that I actually like.
(She has vastly improved me I have to say )

I forgot to mention….

Scuba Diving
Black pepper
Recycling
Lipton ice tea (peach)

She tried and failed with …

Earl Grey Tea (no)
One Born Every Minute (no no no)
Yoga (maybe ?)

So her average is pretty good 🙂

Cantonese (kind of)
A taste for ice in all its forms and dishes
A better, healthier and happier life……

I’m struggling to think of anything my wife has introduced to me apart from the concepts, unknown to me as a batchelor, of being nagged, insulted and told she doesn’t like Wales, The Dales, meat, eggs or fish, sex, visiting friends, swimming, climbing, camping and a whole lot of other things I used to think couples did together.

….nope, I really can’t think of anything new she’s introduced to me.

Kids
Tanqueray Export
Toasted Soreen
Not riding my bike

Skiing
My stepson

my wonderful wife made me a little girl who I adore and cherish, she is 2 now. Also I open my underwear drawers to find pants and socks…. pretty dam amazing that, it’s like magic.

Open relationships.

The things that I love now and would have never had experienced/done are

Art – particularly modern art
Skiing
My daughter

I could be happy without the first two but her threatening to leave me if we didn’t try for kids is the single best thing she’s ever done.

Via her and her family’s love of cars I have lived my mid-life sports car crisis a bit earlier than perhaps I should have.

Death Cab For Cutie and having money to spend. I’m very grateful for both.

Yoga (very grateful for this).
Dressing smartly (occasionally).
City breaks (I’d still rather be in the countryside though).

nice thread. I think…
-snowboarding
-xc skiing
-her friendly family

Toasted Soreen

Wooooaaaahhh.

Walks to kitchen…

Mountain biking (always fancied riding through the woods, never got around to it beforehand after a disastrous Halfords bike purchase…)

World of Warcraft (lifelong gamer but I’d never played an MMO before)

I tried to introduce him to steak and comics, he’s not a fan though. 🙁

Confidence
Self Worth
Happiness.

Scatter cushions, rugs, random twigs
Hoovering
Regular sunday dinners at her folks

Everything that she read about in 50 shades in the Grey trilogy ! 😀

Wine
Gin and tonic
Sex and the city
Moisturising

….. I’ll get my coat

Politics.. she’s forever going on about it, feminism, environmentalism, I don’t ever want to shut my mouth ism*

Oh and her wardrobe, which is full of much nicer things than mine

* luv you honey =)

‘Normal people’: her family (3 siblings and their families). And after having been surrounded by uneducated degenerates (both in the work place and in my personal life) for 37 years (before I met her), wow, what a breath of fresh air.

The importance of colour coordination…

Broccoli

Mountain biking.
Singletrackworld.
Not worrying*

*work in progress

Now this is the difference between men and women.

I tried to introduce my wife to bikes, she tried a couple of times and then said it wasn’t for her, so I stopped trying. Below is a list of things that my wife has succesfully introduced me to because she simply won’t stop until she’s succeeded. (And some of these took a very long time)

Rinsing the dishes after washing them
Splitting clothes up before washing them
Checking in clothes pockets before washing them
Watching absolute bilge on TV
Gin
Roast Dinners
Salt in your food
Seeing family on a regular basis
Going somewhere hot on holiday
Negotiation (how ironic)
Children
Going off sick from work when you’re sick
How to iron a shirt properly

I’ll stop now but there’s many more. Reading that list back makes me cry a little.

Art/Design
Shakespeare/books/literature
Motown/RnB
Cocktails
Happiness

Bikes
Good coffee
Good chocolate
The Outdoors
Total happiness

black coffee (maybe not a good thing as i regularly drink 3+ pints a day)
hendricks gin
not riding my bike so much 🙁

Optimism.

In the past I have always been worried about getting stuck with an SO. The only fear I have with this one is losing her. Luckily she will be my wife before the year is out.

😀 x 1000

Oh god, how could I have forgotten the most important ones.

I am always wrong.
If something bad happens, it was my fault.
If anything good happens it was hers (unless it goes bad later on)

Clothes that wash, hang, dry and put themselves away, or something like that, I’ve never seen it happen.
That a harp is probably the biggest, most delicate instrument to move.

Good thread

Staying in bed (sleeping) til midday
lazy days
sambucca
parenthood (I have successfully become a parent, whether I’ll be a successful parent remains to be seen)

Road biking.
Wearing decent winter kit for winter MTB rides.
The concept of a floordrobe for our clothes!

samuri’s 2nd post +1 plus
If you have a problem you must talk about it,
there is a way of life that is not grumpy,
doing the Dr Evil “Shh” hand is bad… very, very bad
listening