I am, by trade, a brand new schoolteacher.
Ask anyone who doesn’t only get their information from hearsay and shitty movies with DC heroes in the title, and they’ll tell you that Year One of teaching is no traipse through Candyland: Lots of hours on and off the clock working to edumacate hormone-driven little imps in the intricacies of the English language will be daunting at best.
This is also my first year living with a woman…one who raises hell and makes my life considerably harder when she doesn’t get her way. See how this can all lead to disaster?
Considering my lady is also a teacher, she knows what I’m facing. But she’ll inevitably, inadvertently push me to the brink of anger after a long day. To be in a relationship is to drive one another up the wall every now and again, but I think everyone should arm themselves with tools to minimize relationship conflagrations.
When I get the stones, I may sit down and have a talk with my lady about getting the following things tight for when the school year starts:
1. Give me silence
A couple weeks ago, I sat in atrocious traffic on the way home following a work event. I got home in such a foul mood that she could have complained to me about the sudden death of her parents and I might have lost it. Not to be selfish, but the last thing I need after eating the Shyte of 120 14-year-olds all day is to deal with anyone else’s immediately after. Peace is what I desire.
2. Have dinner going
Of course this sounds sexist, and I certainly don’t expect my lady to have a pot brimming every time I get home. (Hell, she has a job/life too) But man, if I walk home from an atrocious day and don’t have to worry about how to feed my face, I’m gonna be eternally grateful, regardless of what she cooks. Well, almost regardless.
3. Kisses, hugs and love
There’s this thing called “teacher’s breath” that you get after talking to students all day. Combine that with general work fatigue, and sexiness doesn’t register on the agenda right when I get home. But just because I’m not always trying to walk through the door and lay pipe doesn’t mean I don’t like the attention from my woman that lets me know she adores me. It validates all my hard work.
Do you consciously try to make sure your man gets a pleasant greeting when he comes through the door?
