How to Survive Your Spouse when Snowed In

20 Jan

So, you’re snowed in, and work and school is canceled. Eventually, cabin fever starts to sink in, and you are stuck with the one person from whom you once wanted to never be away. And now, they’re starting to really get on your nerves.

What do you do?

Personally, I say be thankful that you have that person around to get on your nerves. This is the yin to your yang. Your other half. How destroyed would you be without them?

In 2007, The Boyfriend was in the hospital for about 7 months. About 5 of those months were spent at our local hospital. We were put in a tiny room, with no internet, no closet space, a cubbyhole for a bathroom, and 9 channels. I slept in a chair that was made out of vinyl that folded out, and to this day I swear they tried to invent the most uncomfortable thing imaginable. Every morning, my face had vinyl lines on it. Hot. And The Boyfriend, cranky because he had tubes sticking out of him everywhere and couldn’t eat anything and would have killed for a Coca Cola, constantly was yelling at me and had me in tears every time it was meal time for me. Understandable; I would have been the same way if I couldn’t eat.

I wound up taking a lot of walks around the hospital to get away. It wasn’t close enough to go home and get back in case something happened, so I never went home. I did decide one day that I was tired of people bringing me food and toiletries everyday, so I thought I would wait tables down the street to get away and make some extra money. My second day of work, The Boyfriend died. He came back, but I didn’t go back to work.

I guess the moral of this story is, we survived that (literally, thankfully!), so every moment spent together we are happy to be around each other. Don’t get me wrong…we still get on each other’s nerves. But that’s what headphones are for.