Let’s Get It On…In a Socially Responsible Way.

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What a great time to get back to blogging! What an even better time to get back to blogging at “You Just have to Laugh…..”

It has come to my attention that many of us are spending unprecedented amounts of time with our significant others, our partners, our spouses, our boyfriends, girlfriends and whomever else we may be trapped with in our abodes.

This seems daunting. I mean, sure we love them, you know, enough. But do we really have to spend ALL this time together? This is where it is getting tricky, six days in. The old saying, “for better or for worse, but not for lunch,”  has more depth than I realized.

I know what you’re thinking. We are all thinking the same thing. GO AWAY! Even introverts are horrified that those pesky extroverts want to keep talking, and talking and talking.

I have two solutions, neither of which I have implemented just yet. So let’s just say this is a social experiment we can all try and share our data.

First, I think we should start dating again. Yep, right here in our own homes. Let’s get our the silver and ‘good china’ and a tablecloth! Let’s have wine (lots of wine, in fact, order more online because in Pennsylvania where I live, the liquor stores are closed indefinitely) in gorgeous crystal glasses. Light the tapers in your grandmother’s candlesticks.  Your kids are going to throw them out eventually anyway. Make amazing dinners. Put on romantic music. And yes, take a shower and get dressed up. Please take a shower, no really. Both of you put on nice clothes. Talk only about your future, what you’d like to do, where you’d like to go. Make it weekly or twice a week.

Create fun dates: games (yes, even those kinds of games), romantic moonlight walks holding hands. Give each other a manicure or pedicure. Go to the movies in your house, but cuddle on the couch. Turn out the lights, share the popcorn. No disaster movies allowed.

Second, GO AWAY. In a socially responsible, socially distancing kind of way.  Go to your own rooms, If you only have one bedroom, let someone BE in the bathroom for two hours if they need to be. You’ve got to get to your separate corners on a regular basis. Don’t be offended if your loved one looks at you with rolling eyes and says the one simple word, “please…..just please.” Translation: Go Away. Go away now. Do not come back until a reasonable amount of time has passed. That is more than 15 minutes.

I welcome all databases on this experiment. Tonight I told my husband fire up the fire pit we are having our own weenie roast and marsmallow roast. This requires camping attire, which I may be wearing as pjs right now, but the cocktail dresses are coming out of the closet soon, very soon.

And never forget today, tomorrow and always: You Just have to Laugh…………

20 thoughts on “Let’s Get It On…In a Socially Responsible Way.”

  1. I loved this! Even though it’s just me here, I actually decided that after my (at home) workout, I’m going to shower and get ready for brunch, which will take place on my sunlit porch. I’ll be brining a book, and there may be more than one mimosa ordered…

    1. Hahaha. After my workout, where I even let my personal trainer see what I was doing….no cheating!! I showered, washed my hair and now I’m going to put something nicer than sweatpants on and take a little walk in the sunshine! Have a lovely day, my beauty!

  2. Silver lining: I’m housebound with 4 vertebral compression fractures and my husband is under a “work from home” order. No date nights, but a great example of the “in sickness and in health” vow we took 37.5 years ago.

    1. Oh, Suzanne. I am wishing you a recovery with little or no pain. That sounds terrible. It’s nice your hubby can be there without any guilt from work for caregiving duties. Date night might just be a nice trip looking at photos from all those great trips you’ve taken, now a stroll down memory lane! Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

    1. Yes, Lee. You may suggest anything, any time. You’re a keeper! Have a wonderful weekend!

  4. Ironic. In honor of the wedding that has been cancelled, but which was supposed to be held tonight, we are going to dress in our wedding attire long enough to take a wedding photo for the happy couple, who will be wedding in relative privacy with a few family members in attendance.

    It wasn’t our idea, but i like it.

    1. Awww, my favorite cousin! I had no idea. Well, shower and get out the tablecloth! It will be a beautiful ceremony with the love of all who love you being sent through the universe! Congratulations and may you share years of joy and happiness. Love you! Your favorite cousin!

  5. This sounds good. Now we just have to figure out what those of us who live alone can do to get ourselves through this time!

    1. Well you certainly can treat yourself to candlelight, a lovely dinner, a tablecloth, good music and a shower, maybe even bubble bath! Take good care, Kathy.

  6. Love this, Cathy! I’m ready for the experiment, but not sure if Joe is ready to try. I’ll let you know if I can get him on board.

    1. Well, except for the ‘go away’ part, you can take a shower even if he wont! hahahaha. Take care, dear friends!

  8. Right on, Cathy! My husband and I are retired so we’ve had some experience with this. I sometimes disappear into my writing room. He spends time in his home office or music studio. The periodic separation helps. But yesterday we spent all afternoon together talking about my book. (I write. He critiques.) It was such a great collaborative session that I told him I might have to share authorship with him. We haven’t tried the date and dress-up idea yet, but I like it! Stay safe and happy, my friend. 😊

    1. We are on that retirement/ sem-retirement train as well. So that “go to your separate corner, “” has become important! But I must admit, hubby and I are having some interesting, deep conversations! Stay well and eat well,my friend!

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