Power means never having to say you're sorry.
Matthew NormanTags: life-power
This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.
Matthew NormanIf my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.
Matthew NormanTags: woody-allen penis-humor
Married silence is a specific kind of silence, typically one in which the woman goes mute while the man pretends as if it's perfectly normal that she hasn't spoken in hours.
Matthew NormanShe rarely lets me off the hook, holding me to a different standard of emotional intelligence than the other men in her life - even my Brothers. She allows them to behave like Gary, docilely going about their lives, content and happy and completely oblivious to the sticky, ugly things just a few inches below the surface of everything.
Matthew NormanI think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.
Matthew NormanTags: encouragement teacher
I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.
Matthew NormanTags: marriage
When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT?
Matthew NormanTags: sex
Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.
Matthew NormanI instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.
Matthew NormanTags: laugh
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