Aug 9, 2011
A sad time capsule reveals divorce by remodel
Here’s a rueful note left behind by a husband at the close of a remodel project in the 70′s and rediscovered recently behind some wainscoting…
(via Found Magazine)
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Is a marriage that can be destroyed by a home remodelling project worth keeping anyway?
It was probably less “a home remodeling project” than it was all the communication issues (men grunt and smile; women say one thing and then use a complex system of body cues and voice intonation to convey and infer real meaning) that seem to plague our species. And it took like 11 months to complete! You can Xerox a HUMAN faster than that. Of COURSE they divorced.
I guess one had better make sure all the difficult times are done then before getting married… :)
That’s a leap of logic I just can’t support. And Jeremy, I think you meant “…how silly of us to forget how SIMPLE and stupid men are.” :D
No, just make sure all the difficult remodel jobs are done first…
;)
Oh yeah, how silly of us to forget how simply and stupid men are.
Lots of valuable things are fragile…
Obviously you’ve not done a remodelling project. They are exceedingly stressful on marriages.
Written the day after Christmas, too. How depressing.
A big project like a remodel requires good communication and cooperation. It was the lack of communication &/or cooperation that destroyed the marriage. The remodel just exposed those problems.
They must have gone to Ikea.
I would rather have a kegerator for three different kegs in my newly remodeled kitchen anyways. She must have not seen the logic in it. Fellas, who’s with me here?