Apr
26
I’ll Let You Buy Salt if You Buy Me a Diamond Ring
Written by Micaela. Filed Under life, love, micaela, psychology, relationships
One important thing I have learned while dating Kent is that if I put an idea into his head, there is a good chance it will come out of his mouth as his own idea a few weeks later. Leah calls this A Sign of an Abusive Relationship. You might call it Manipulative. I call it Being Resourceful. And I promise, I only use it for good. For example: Kent drinks a LOT of diet coke. He probably drinks more per day than I would even consider drinking in a month. Which of course is really bad for him, so when he complained that he was gaining weight, I suggested maybe it was all the diet coke. No, he said, diet coke is good for you, coke is bad for you because of all the sugar. Two weeks later he said to me “I feel like I’m gaining weight. I think it’s all the diet coke.” SUCCESS! Yesterday he drank three glasses of water at work and I guess only about a million minus three glasses of diet coke. He’s a chef, I guess they get thirsty. Plus diet coke is free at the restaurant. So I suppose I’m getting somewhere, and he is three glasses of diet coke less likely to die of aspartane-related illnesses.
I also decided that if I ever want to get engaged or married or anything fun like that, I should start putting that idea into his head as well. Not that I need to get engaged RIGHT NOW, but it’s always good to start planning ahead, plus it’s fun to talk about it. I have managed to work the idea of diamonds into many conversations, for example this one:
Kent: I found this pink Himalayan salt for $200 a pound on the internet…. *a few minutes later* What’s our postal code?
Me: Are you buying $200 salt?
Kent: No, I’m buying $8 salt. I’ll buy you something too, okay?
Micaela: Is it sparkly?
This seems to be working too, but not quite in the way that I originally planned.
Micaela: Where do you think you’d be in your life right now if you weren’t dating me?
Kent: Looking for you.
Micaela: Awww.
Kent: Does that get me out of buying a ring?
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grrrrreat post! i wish i had a the same abilities as you. matt is slower at learning to take my ideas as his own. maybe we should do lunch sometime soon.
Aww! Yeah on the less diet coke. I hope that info I sent to you helped scare him away from it.
D is way to stubborn to be ‘manipulated’ into anything like this
Ah well, I love him anyway!
He should read a part in a book I’m reading. It’s all about the bad things in Coke. And Er- I think Denis would just make a joke out of it, haha
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Funny — that same strategy works on my mother. Give her a few days to decide anything was her idea and she’s all for it.
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I wish I could get that little trick to work for me. I’ve been trying for 4 years to get my BF to marry me….Maybe I’ll whisper into his ear while he is sleeping…Ha…
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Sooo funny, I can totally relate
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