Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Marital love, the Taiwanese and Chinese way[?]

I have always wondered how the Taiwanese / Chinese [my spouse is a first-generation Taiwanese, born of Mainland Chinese parents per his birth certificate, a fact that was hidden from me until recently] conduct marital relationships that are [or claimed to be] based on love:   by signing contractual statements for every single acts that are to be performed and / or accomplished?  

Below is a visual example of our marital partnership.  Partnership in the sense that my spouse and I have been so close that we've actually done "homework" together; I label his professional objectives and career tasks "homework" as the feelings I get when laying out the strategies and telling him how to play climb-the-career-ladder game are very similar to what I feel when I am teaching our son during our after-school sessions.


3 comments:

  1. Has your spouse achieved his $70k income status? If so, cash in your hard-earned rewards, take your lovely son, and run like your life force is being sucked dry. It is!--I kid you not--by an unconscionable lowlife.

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    1. Well, with my help, my spouse did reach that $70k mark; this was back in 2005. But like all the contracts we had agreed to and signed, this one was breached. The reason he gave was that I "spend them all," which is a really convenient excuse and an outright lie given that I was not given access to the account until mid-2008.

      I've learned not to put any trust in anything that comes out of his mouth; I've also learned to arm myself with a recorder to tape our conversations as deniability is a certainty with him.

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    2. Why am I not surprised to read that? I've some choice words for that spouse of yours but since you don't like vulgarity, I'll just leave this $%^&*@#$ then.

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