First of all before i start let us try and de-code what is "The 7-year Itch"...
1. I think according to the scholors, it is the inclination to become unfaithful after 7-years of marriage.
2. It is the title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe movie which is even now famous for the image of her white dress blowing up over a subway grating (white dress, red lipstick, super hot blonde) wow! what an image...
but in this super fast day & age when marriages & divorces are going hand in hand, the 7 year itch has lost several years..has also become 1,2,3,4,5 0r 6 years. :-)
for me it is not so much an itch to look at something or someone new but it is an itch to just have some breather or space away to spend on my own.
I keep threatening my husband sometimes ( all empty threats ofcourse) ;-)
I am 100 percent sure i would not want to swap him with anyone else as he is what i would have wanted and had the good sense to go for( even in the face of all the opposition and people breathing down my neck - hey R2 & S are you guys listening???). He doesnt question me, doesnt stop me from doing what i want and he is such a good one that he comes and picks me up from wherever & whenever I go drinking and partying with my pals. :-) ( this is a huge bonus)
And also there is this major thing - to get to know someone again in the smallest possible ways and understand...I am too old for all these games.. I think! and that is what i keep telling him all the time.
So my version of the 7-year itch is actually just an empty threat when i get irritated that things are not going the way I wanted.
nice remembrance
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