A horror story to some, a funny story to others.
A friend of mine told me a story about his grandparents. His grandmother was a chatterbox. When she was going through a shidduch with his grandfather, he was very talkative too — so, the bride-to-be was happy: she had finally found someone she can have a nice talk with.
After they got married, the husband stopped talking. Initially she thought he was shy, or it was a shock from the wedding, new responsibilities, etc. But as the time passed on, the husband was talking as much as Grimaud (the servant of Athos from The Three Musketeers).
Eventually she asked him: why wasn’t he so talkative anymore? The husband answered: “I said everything I had to say.”
Update (for le7): And after that they lived for the rest of their happy lives in comfortable silence.
12 comments:
AHHHH omg.... uch... eek.
So, scary?
Yeah.
See the update.
I always find it cute when I see a couple that doesn’t need to talk.
You think the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin talked very much? I really doubt it.
Hmmm I guess... after a few years, but right away?
Yeah, I suppose.
I know a couple that has been together for quite a while (they have two or three children, one of which is married already). The husband talks all the time. The wife makes a few comments.
My chavrusa, after we had been to a dinner to the couple, told me that he imagined how one day, the wife comes out with a kitchen with a huge frying pain and just whacks the husband on the head, screaming: “SHUT UP!”
Even post-update its still kinda scary how someone can suddenly just change on you like that.
The change is a bit disturbing but aside for that, I think it's cute. Then again I don't mind silence...
Companionable it is.
In person I prefer silence actually. But online or on the phone it's a bit perturbing.
Well, I can assure you that in those times neither existed.
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