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A friend told me that the season when you are about to get married is also the season when you have the highest negotiating power with your future hubby.

Whoah, that is very interesting. I haven’t thought of that before! But come to think of it, my former colleague did draw up a list of non-negotiables before getting married, and her future hubby did agree to abide by every item on the list. After reading, he found that all the items on the list are morally legitimate to demand for, feasibly practical to live by, and even wise to ask for from a bride’s p.o.v.; aaaand that unless he agrees to them, no wedding!

Very very interesting. I’m getting curiouser and curiouser! Lemme ask you, if you were her, what practical items would you put on the list?

Let me think. For me, item number one would be,

NO ADULTERY!!!

Even when I’m fat and frumpy.
Even when I’m wrinkly and naggy.
Even when I’m irritating and not understanding.
Even when I’m bedridden, bedwetting and utterly disgusting!

After all, isn’t that what marriage is for? To have someone to love you and care for you, through every season (because there’ll be times when we’ll have just enough and times when we’ll have too much), even when you’re imperfect (because we all are), in spite of every challenge, until death.

And to have someone to love, care for and hold on to, even when he’s imperfect, through every season, as long as they both shall live. It’s a fair exchange.

Heaven forbid I marry someone who loves me only when I’m young, pretty and perfectly pleased with his every behavior. Life would be too stressful as such a horrid person’s wife!

Again, what about you? What would you put on the list? Tell me…