From Him: The first post

I have to confess that this blog is shamelessly motivated by The Drunken Housewife. I have always been envious of people who can blog consistently and entertainingly, which she invariably does. Her blog is fueled by precocious small children, innumerable pets and a suitably ironic husband all lubricated by appropriate (or sufficiently inappropriate) amounts of alcohol.

Unfortunately I have to conclude that someone with a similar amount of alcohol, but living on the opposite side of the gender divide will never be as entertaining. For some reason it is "cute" to read about women struggling with life. When a guy does it, the same story comes across as pathetic. Thus even though I too have children (older, but equally entertaining), pets, and a spouse with enough foibles to provide daily inspiration, it is unlikely that anything I write would capture the interest of the Internet as a whole.

The nice thing about being a couple is that you can compensate for each other's inadequacies. Even though I haven't quite mentioned it to her yet, this blog is a couples blog, wrapped in just enough anonymity that we can talk about subject that would most likely offend the children (who aren't really interested in knowing what we do in the bedroom with the door closed), or parents (some of whom refuse to use a computer, and therefore aren't really a worry), or friends (whom we would like to keep.)

When I was looking for a title for this blog (and ended up with the shameless rip-off of the drunken housewife) I tried "couplelife". That one was taken, but I laughed out loud because the current title of that blog on blogspot is "Frustrating Relationship". I guess we'll have to figure out who gets to control the title of this blog.