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By Real Dad, October 5, 2009 9:56 pm

Marriage means many different things to many different people. Most of these things are indeed great but some of

Me after marriage

them….well not so great. Over the last few days, I have realized that any measurable quantity of machismo I once possessed has been lost. I have never been known as the typical “Guy’s Guy” but never really a sissy-la-la either; I usually ranked somewhere in between. Over the weekend I had some things happen that made me realize that marriage is slowly decaying my minimal machismo level. Here are some of the examples I thought of:

• When my wife inferred that my haircut does not look good on my fat head, I did not say go f***yourself and throw an upper-cut
• When my potty training 3 year old bent over in front of me and said “Daddy look at my butt” and spread his little ass cheeks apart I didn’t kick him straight in his ass
• I am constantly cleaning pee from the toilet and floor when just a mere 10 years ago I would piss on the bowl, floor,wall and anything else within a 5 ft radius of the toilet in a drunken stupor then say “screw it!” and walk away
• I have played with dolls, a toy kitchen set, a toy cosmetic bust along with many other girly things and I am not ashamed to admit it
• I have cried in front of my wife and did not say “If you tell anyone about this I will KILL you”
• I was hurt when my 4 year old daughter told me she didn’t like me
• I have expressed to my wife on many occasions that something hurt
• I admitted to my wife that I did not know how to do something
• I said…….”I do”

As you can clearly tell, marriage changes a man. However I must say that I wouldn’t change it for anything!……..

Pssst…the wife may read this so I had to throw that in. See…again…machismo lost!