What could you get away with while single and an adult?

Leaving my underwear on the bedroom floor.
Leaving the seat up^^
But wouldn’t go back to that for any reason I truly love being married to Mrs Squeeky.

I could get into a fistfight (every week) and tell my then-girlfriend that I fell down a flight of stairs (every week), and she (unbelievably) accepted that story (every week).

She is my wife now, and believes precisely ZERO percent of anything and everything I say…even before I have a chance to say it….

(I’ve even taken ‘sincerity’ and ‘fake crying’ lessons, but…..so far…..No Sale…)

Unhidden porn and dildo collection. Could not do that as a child.

Au contraire…..sounds like you didn’t creatively try hard enough….

I could scoop into a port wine cheeseball without anyone telling me not to because it was for company.

Having sex with a lot of people :p Well…not a LOT.

TOO LATE…...

Playing the field

Smokin’.

I am a very lucky person, I have to say. Other than the “having sex with a lot of people”, my life isn’t so different as a married person. We pretty much let each other be themselves. As long as we are respectful to the other, most anything goes.

Go to bed when I wanted. Get up when I wanted, at least on weekends. Eat what I wanted, when I wanted. I lived by myself as a young single person and could get away with a lot.

Sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday, I’d sleep until 10 or 11, have breakfast, go back to bed with a book for a few more hours, have supper (or have another breakfast), and go back to bed. That was a real luxury.

Sometimes I’d come home from work at 6:00, fall straight onto the bed, sleep until 11 p.m., get up and eat, and go back to bed.

Hmm, there seems to be a pattern there. Yes, I worked hard, and I had a boyfriend who was around wanting attention most of the time, and so I really needed to crash when I could.

Probably the best thing was just not having to explain. I could put off doing the laundry, have cereal for supper, spend the rent money on a new couch, and eat out when I was broke, and I didn’t have to justify it to anybody. I loved that. Most of the new bed linens and towels and underwear I acquired over those years were bought when everything I already owned was in the laundry hamper.

Not that I couldn’t do most of those things now (and probably do, from time to time), but it’s different. It wasn’t marriage that changed things as much as it was parenthood. At some point you just have to start acting like a grownup. >Sigh.<