Now I'm not a a wise old man, I don't have an abundance of experience, but I have figured out exactly what makes a relationship work and not work. It can be summarized with one word. For the two people that actually read my blog (me being one of them) I'm going to put some suspense...
Forget it, too much effort putting in suspense. The word is: "Precedence." Link if you don't know: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/precedence
Precedence = Expectation
This isn't for guys. No we don't care what we got our significant other (SO) last year, or what Joe Blow did for his SO for their anniversary, or what I bought for myself this year. We don't care. Guys live for the moment, and if we do think outside of the now it's thinking about the future not the past.
Girls though, man o man, they love precedence, they love it more then lawyers. Why aren't all lawyers girls? Or history teachers, they have unbelievable memory when it comes to the past. I fill my head with memories of sports and finance, girls fill their heads with what we bought them on 12 Friday's ago.
Here's a tip, if you're starting out in a new relationship, do not, I repeat DO NOT set high precedence. Don't go out and buy her a puppy on your first anniversary because you shoot yourself in the foot next year, and the year after that, and after that. Don't hang around with idiots that set high precedence either. Don't let your SO know that your idiot friend went and took their girlfriend to Vegas for a vacation.
And if your SO gets you season tickets to the Canucks on your birthday, you're dead when it's her birthday. Get out! Get out now! Take the tickets and run for the hills.
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