This morning during my usual 'mind journeys' while I'm soaking in the tub, it came to me that when people marry they're in essence setting up permanent residence in a empty theater. No, not a movie house, not an auditorium, a theater, with the stage, curtains, audience area, the 'wings' and all that attendant stuff. It's also useful to finally realize (although you might not think so at the beginning..) that while the various rooms have doors, there are no locks on any of them.
Sometimes both of you will be on stage at the same time. Other times, one of you will be up there and if you're lucky the other will be out in the 'audience' section. Then there will be the frustrating times when you're up on stage and you partner is not watching at all, and in fact, is off in the wings somewhere fooling around with the props.
There will probably be long periods where not only the stage, but also 'the house' is dark and you'll be stumbling around feeling your way via a barely remembered floor plan. There will be shouting in the dark and requests to turn the damn spotlight off. If you want to forge some success between the two actors over the long haul, it's best if you 'accidentally' misplace the scripts you came in with backstage somewhere and learn to write a new one together.....
Okay. That's enough riffs on that for now.....
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