I love my wife of almost four years, and I do not regret marrying her after a four year long-distance courtship. However, if my marriage ended I would not marry again. I probably would not even date again.
You see, I’m a loner and have been since childhood. I enjoy solitude. Being alone gives me time and space to think, to read, to write, to tinker with machinery. And, yes, after a long day at work I sometimes like to watch an action movie, or a comedy. Or sometimes I want to fire up my Xbox and blow things up.
Fortunately for me, I found a woman who understands me and accepts that even though I love her, even though I worship her, I still possess all of the qualities that women adore in cats but tend to despise in men. I’m solitary. I sometimes take long walks late at night if I can’t sleep. The feelings of people other than my wife just don’t matter to me.
I won’t apologize for being what I am. I am selfish. I do sometimes let my inner problem child out to play. And I love my wife and will have no other woman because she does not demand that I ask her to forgive me for being a man. I do not think that I will find another woman in America who will accept me as I am.
As it is, I met my wife in Australia. Today is the day we met, eight years ago.
