Kevin and I met while working as secretaries in an advisement center on campus. One of the best/worst things about being a secretary is that people come around and talk... it's at once hilarious, revealing, uncomfortable, endearing, awkward, and emotional to be a front-desk-ite hearing people spill their stories.
Nathan came around to talk one morning (this was during a season when Kevin and I's interest in each other was strong but still unspoken), and he began to chat with Kevin while I was entering some sort of humdrum clerical data. He began to explain how aggravating it can be to match Tupperware lids to their corresponding containers and compared it to how aggravating dating can be. Some lids look like they'll fit the containers (just like some folks look like they'll be a perfect match), but they just don't quite cut it because they're overly oval or a little large or novelly narrow. But every so often you'll have an odd duck combo, like a star-shaped Tupperware, and you can just smack that lid and base together without a hiccup... or that star-shaped lid girl and that star-shaped base guy can look up across the room and just KNOW.
He went on to say that star-shaped people are sometimes the two that take LARPING seriously, or have the same love for fly-fishing, or they both come from small towns in Canada... or something of the sort.
Nathan went on to say, "So what shape are you guys?" to which Kevin responded, "Well, Mikayla is music-note-shaped..."
Silently, desperately, sincerely in my mind I warbled sappily, "But I could be Star-shaped for you!"
Needless to say, with time we figured out whatever shape we respectively are, and that we fit each other.
To all my single friends out there, DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR TUPPERWARE MATCH. There's someone out there who's your fit.
But the thing I've realized through my dating life and through my marriage is that there's nobody who is going to be the exact same as you are--let's be real, one of you is a lid and one's the container.
And that's a beautiful thing to be celebrated.
I'm into going to live music and hipster locally-owned restaurants and reading children's books and loving on animals. Kevin is into improv comedy and trying dangerous things for the fun of it and making all food good by slathering it in barbecue sauce. But we both love God, we love each other, we love our families, we love to eat, we love going on walks. We're learning to like each other's interests and find new, mutual interests together. We respect and celebrate our differences.
I believe that's how any healthy relationship ought to be. Your marriage should be this way especially, but not just the marriage relationship. In any relationship, we ought to respect and celebrate differences.
And truly, we can still be a Tupperware fit.
Nathan came around to talk one morning (this was during a season when Kevin and I's interest in each other was strong but still unspoken), and he began to chat with Kevin while I was entering some sort of humdrum clerical data. He began to explain how aggravating it can be to match Tupperware lids to their corresponding containers and compared it to how aggravating dating can be. Some lids look like they'll fit the containers (just like some folks look like they'll be a perfect match), but they just don't quite cut it because they're overly oval or a little large or novelly narrow. But every so often you'll have an odd duck combo, like a star-shaped Tupperware, and you can just smack that lid and base together without a hiccup... or that star-shaped lid girl and that star-shaped base guy can look up across the room and just KNOW.
He went on to say that star-shaped people are sometimes the two that take LARPING seriously, or have the same love for fly-fishing, or they both come from small towns in Canada... or something of the sort.
Nathan went on to say, "So what shape are you guys?" to which Kevin responded, "Well, Mikayla is music-note-shaped..."
Silently, desperately, sincerely in my mind I warbled sappily, "But I could be Star-shaped for you!"
Needless to say, with time we figured out whatever shape we respectively are, and that we fit each other.
To all my single friends out there, DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR TUPPERWARE MATCH. There's someone out there who's your fit.
But the thing I've realized through my dating life and through my marriage is that there's nobody who is going to be the exact same as you are--let's be real, one of you is a lid and one's the container.
And that's a beautiful thing to be celebrated.
I'm into going to live music and hipster locally-owned restaurants and reading children's books and loving on animals. Kevin is into improv comedy and trying dangerous things for the fun of it and making all food good by slathering it in barbecue sauce. But we both love God, we love each other, we love our families, we love to eat, we love going on walks. We're learning to like each other's interests and find new, mutual interests together. We respect and celebrate our differences.
I believe that's how any healthy relationship ought to be. Your marriage should be this way especially, but not just the marriage relationship. In any relationship, we ought to respect and celebrate differences.
And truly, we can still be a Tupperware fit.
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