For Once, A Happy, Sexy Story About An American Marriage

OMG! Forgive me for missing is yesterday in my Salon search. Two people (well, we’re only hearing from him) who are happily married, in love, and still having torrid sex, even if it is a quicky in the pantry/coat closet during an episode of “Dora”.

This is truly one of the freshest articles I’ve read about a couple’s private life in months, maybe years. It’s hot! It’s sexy! It’s … marriage! is full of dead-on insights that we don’t have to automatically thrown in the towel in our very disposable, modern, marriage-averse society.

via Flickr’s Fields of CakeI quote lavishly from someone who sounds like he truly enjoys living in a happy marriage. Quick, strap him down to the brain scan table and run him through the dark tunnel. What makes this guy tick? And get his wife in here for a brain scan, too.

Somehow they’ve escaped from the “Am I Happy Yet” mindset!

Maybe if we all had a better sense of humor about our relationships, our sex, and most important, getting older, our marriages wouldn’t be in such crisis. As appealing as doing tequila shots with out-of-work strippers sounds sometimes, the reality of it (for more than an evening) would probably not make me any happier than I am curled up on the couch with my wife drinking watered-down Scotch and watching TiVoed episodes of “General Hospital.”

I’m not arguing that people shouldn’t get divorced. I’m all for it. What I’m sick and tired of is divorced people speaking as though they are oracles from the future who know how the rest of our unions will turn out. All the marriage bashing going on out there feels like a way of shedding a certain amount of personal responsibility. By telling the world the institution is flawed, or that we’ve somehow outgrown it, nobody has to own up and admit that it was their interpretation of it that was screwed up.

Looking through the comments, I see a small tidal wave of celebration that someone — a man, no less — told the world that marriage doesn’t have to ‘suck’. 

I’m working for the same cause … not necessarily marriage but hot sensuality in long-term relationships … intimacy, and all the things we love to hate in our 21st century, throwaway society. 

Really and truly, the endless the crying in our beer about relationships is getting on my nerves. Reading Aaron Traister’s It’s Hot! It’s sexy! It’s  … marriage!, I want to shoot a pistol in the air (except that I’m anti-guns.) How about a sparkler! No …sparklers in both hands.

Honest to God, life doesn’t have to be so bad … so dead … so NOT OVER! Yeah, Aaron! Anne