Hope for the Best

“Just a lesson I have learned:  your partner will fail you, as you will him or her.  It’s best to make sure that failure only has a small distance to fall before it crashes to the ground.”

I love this advice I received from a friend recently.  In other words, it’s sort of like when, as kids, we promised our parents that we would feed and walk the new puppy every single day.  My mom—being like most mothers in this situation, i.e. NOT an idiot—knew that having a new puppy would be fun for all of us, but that there’d be every possibility that she’d be feeding the animal herself on a daily basis.  So, she brought a little tiny puffball home one day.  She realized that despite our good intentions, her kids would potentially fail her, so she took on a dog she knew that she could handle if/when they did.

I’m not saying to not expect great things from your partner or potential mate.  Just go easy on them when they screw up a thing or two.  You know, like you hope they’d do for you.

That is, of course, unless you’re perfect like I am.