Investigation Discovery – Sillyfrog's Blog

Your sentence starter this week is:

Am I asleep, or am I dreaming? This question whirled through her mind.

Sweet Dreams

“Am I asleep, or am I dreaming? ” This question whirled through her mind as she listened to the TV.

Barb sat straight up in bed having almost fallen asleep.

“Did that idiot just say that private property causes Global Warming?!”

Barb glanced at her husband, Dennis, to see he had dosed off with the TV on again. Now she was wide awake and angry ‘to boot’. Bill Gates was framed on the screen, sickly grinning, and proposed once more that no one should own property or cars.

Barbara was so agitated she hit Dennis square in the face with her pillow. He flailed and sat up beside her.

“What the heck, Barbara?! You nearly gave me a heart attack! What’s wrong?”

“You fell asleep again with that Communist News Network on. Why in the HELL do you watch that garbage!”

“It’s funny and boringly predictable at the same time. You know I can’t just fall asleep like you do.”

“If you insist on watching that station, then you better make darn sure I’m asleep from now on before you tune in. It’s disturbing and alarming to me. And if you don’t understand how disturbing it is, I’ll be happy to hit you with my pillow when it’s left on in the future!”

Dennis, now awake, changed the channel to Investigation Discovery. The show playing was about a woman gradually poisoning her husband to death.

“That’s more like it! Goodnight Dennis. Sweet dreams.”

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Do you feel that people are more attracted to one another by their differences or by their commonalities? And why do you feel that way?

There are so many dynamics in this one! Bravo Fandango! For your provocative question and for drowning me in my own thought analysis. lol

The question specifically asks “attracted to” and I would say our differences offer the first allure because of curiosity and novelty.
I’ve noticed that many relationships are set up according to perceived strengths too. Each partner assumes ‘duties’ according to what he/she seems to be ‘good’ at. There are the finance managers, cooks, home maintenance, and scheduling managers, but also, there are the worriers, optimists, writers, decorators, and romantics. (To name only a few.) Interestingly, they don’t always fall along traditional gender lines either.

Yet, differences aren’t the ‘glue’ to relationship longevity. Similarities are. Specifically, those that encompass values, tradition, and goals. They don’t need to be identical, and rarely are, because every individual is a perfectly unique being BUT they have to be within the same ‘genre’. If one partner wants children and the other doesn’t or one partner envisions world travel as a goal and the other wants to homestead off of the grid, SORRY. Unless lightening strikes, somebody is going to be miserable!
Miserable is a condition more likely to land the relationship’s story on Investigation Discovery than the Hallmark Channel. 😀

I could go on but the last sentence seemed a perfect place to leave you. LOL

Fandango’s Provocative Question #128 – This, That, and The Other (fivedotoh.com)