It is a very controversial topic and many people, especially after their weddings, have different opinions on this.

Are Singaporean guy romantic?

from kafwang.com

In fact, there are some male friends of mine who are.

I remembered a male friend of mine deployed 10 of his friends to make a heart using fire sprinklers at a beach. The size was about half of a basketball court. It was their second year into their relationship.

Another male friend of mine sprinkled rose petals in a hotel room during Valentine’s Day and lined the petals from the middle of the bed to the door.

The third male friend of mine inflated tens of heart-shaped balloons using helium gas and filled his car’s boot with them. He blindfolded his girlfriend and led her to open the boot by herself and the amzing sight was when all the balloons flew up.

Of course again, these special acts are done during special days such as wedding anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Days and even wedding proposals.

What about normal days, especially after their wedding?

Many of my female friends complained that reality set in once after their weddings ended and their husbands cut down the surprises and gifts for them.

For a moment, they realised they were getting more before their weddings.

I heard that from a lady that her husband was absolutely not a romantic man who doesn’t even cooked instant noodle for her. Thus, she could only wish her husband do romantic things only when she sleeps.

Others grumbled that they never receive a paper aeroplane from their husbands and getting paper cranes from them can only be a dream.
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Have you ever realised that once after marriage, your tolerance towards your spouse’s flaws dropped drastically?

from plan4divorce.co.uk

I think it is a common phenomenon among married couples after their big wedding day. They find faults so much easier in their marriage life compared to their courtship life.

In courtship days, things are still so much magical, pleasant and the reality of life had not set in yet. Couples only come to realise that their partners, being so human, only have flaws that normal humans do have.

I have to admit that I am guilty of doing this too and admiting it doens’t mean I’m wrong. We all make mistakes and it is only scary when couples claim that their relationship is forever conflict and argument free.

It is even worse when they say they never took each other for granted before.

There are alot of times our expectations towards each other elevated over the years and we easily get grumpy when the hidden expectations on our spouses are not met.

This is a trap and third parties become so much attractive.

There is a saying that marriage is not ruined because of third party. Marriage is already going downhill and that is when third party comes in.

So let’s see what we can do not to take our spouses for granted.
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It was tough to juggle time between work, friends and family.

It was not easy to manage the very limited time that we have. Each of us only have 24 hours per day.

Yesterday, I made a special trip to support a very good friend of mine who was holding an art exhibition for her oil paintings. She was in fact selling her paintings for charity and the oil paintings do not come cheap.

The price range was around S$400 to $600.

Other friends and I specially went to the art exhibition venue just to support her and we all skipped our lunch so that we could be on time.

Her oil painting was really fantastic and we kept on priaising that she did an excellent work.
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With globalisation being a common word in our daily conversation, stories of weddings couples being separated by force are getting very common too.

from tribuneindia.com

I am talking about globalisation and its impact on wedding couples.

I remember one of my friends who used to wake up everyday at 6am in the morning so that she could chat with her boyfriend who was in the States at that time and the time difference was 12 hours apart.

A bride shared with me that her wedding had to be postponed because her husband-to-be had to work in the Middle East for 6 months because of his work obligation.

Another story that I heard was that the wedding got cancelled because the couples couldn’t come to an agreement about migrating to another country due to the husband’s job transfer to another country.
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Blogging has not been a waste of my time, especially wedding blogging or marriage blogging.

from willamettephoto.com

Wedding commercials and even insurance advertisements have blatantly advertised that life after wedding to be absolutely smooth sailing.

No quarrels, no conflict. Only bed of roses and kisses everyday.

Wedding blogging has been an increasing trend with more and more wedding blogs like mine sprinkling out of the blogosphere field everyday.

As for me, I feel blogging has allowed me to freely express myself, as long as it is ethical and moral in the law of blogosphere.

It has allowed me to share what works or what doesn’t works for me and my wife so that others can learn or even give feedbacks.

Recently I had a comment left in one of my posts, “Giving In to Each Other“.

It is from one of my readers, Emily and she commented “thanks for your blog on tihs topic. i will oso try to follow what you say to give in more to my boyfriend.because of i used to think that im not in wrong and shouldn’t give in to him …thanks!”

Words like these are good enough for my assurance and encouragement that my wedding blog has been beneficial to one, if not some.
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