Living in Peace and Harmony

First off I'm going to give you a little history about myself. I was raised in a family with 2 sisters, 1 brother, a mom and a dad. Growing up, the women basically dominated the house. So these 2 wonderful boys in my family adapted to shaving over counters full of make-up, only get a "two-in-one" shampoo/conditioner combo to fit in the shower among our oodles of shower supplies. Both men were trained to unclog the hair from the showers, and never leave the toilet seat down. If they wanted to watch their T.V shows, they went downstairs. Sadly, our house was a women's territory that 2 men somehow learned to thrive in. Then I moved out and lived with girl roommates up until I was married.

One the other hand, Ian, my husband had one brother, a mom, and a dad. So he, unlike me, lived in a male dominated home where boys could be boys. When Ian graduated, he served his mission for 2 years and came back and lived with only boy roommates up until the point that we were married.

These two complete opposite upbringings have created quite the unique dynamic between man and wife. So here are some things that I found that come with living with a man.

1. They fart and don't get embarrassed.  Not even in front of guests (not including family, he does mind his manners then) 

2. They all come with little anal habits. For example, the toothpaste squeeze. I don't care how I get the toothpaste out, as long as it comes out. Ian pushes the paste from the bottom to get rid of any dents. He likes his toothpaste to always look nice and dent free. 

3. Men don't need much storage room. In our room we have 2 dressers and a big closet. He gets two drawers and 10 hangers and the best part about it- thats all he needs! I also have claimed the bathroom cabinets with most of my hair stuff, but he does have a little basket to provide a place for his razor blades and hair gel.

4.  One day I will clean the bathroom, within a few hours there are little pee droplets on the toilet seat rim again, and its always up so they are hard not to notice.

5. Our typical week day night is spent by Ian watching endless basketball games and me in the other room creeping on crafty blogs or actually attempting the crafts (which is a whole new can of worms to be discussed in another post another day)

6. My point being a man can never watch enough sports. And many women fall victim of that

7. Along with Ian, tons and tons of books also moved into our tiny little house. (This isn't bad thing) but  our house is always covered in little piles of books in every nook and cranny.

8. He educates me on toilet paper. Firstly, a good toilet paper is worth the extra dollars, nothing less than 2-ply unless you want a chapped hinney (I just usually grab the cheapest). The second lesson, I've been informed I use way too much toilet paper in one sitting. I usually don't think anything of it, I unroll and healthy amount scrunch it up and use it. He assured me 2 or 3 squares should do the job... he was right.

9. For some reason he can't understand the concept of decorative pillows for the couch and bed. How hard is to understand they serve no purpose, they just look pretty. But in his defense he does have some good points, one being they get tossed on the floor everynight and provide no use to anyone and they take up a lot of room- but he humors me by making the bed with them on most mornings and is slowly accepting decorative pillows day by day.

10. Counter tops... I don't know what it is about counter tops but men never bother to touch them. Once again to Ian's defense he is a very tidy man and does the dishes every time I cook without ever putting up a stink and I do appreciate that tons- but every time he cleans the kitchen and does the dishes, the counter top goes untouched, and this isn't just him its every man i've met so far.

11. One of the biggest changes i've had to face living with a man is t.v. time. Im slowly learning that he has zero interest in watching say yes to the dress, intervention, heavy, hoarders, I didn't know I was pregnant, 57 year old twin living in old man, or pregnant and in jail, or any type of girly TLC show which are all my favorites.

This list is not a list of complaints- Ian is a great roommate. Boy roommates are just sorta weird at first.