I've already said that I'm an advertiser's dream. I've had a glass of wine and ordered a pizza just because I saw them on TV more than a few times. I've wondered if I'm that susceptible to overt advertising heaven only knows what I'm doing from subliminal messages. So now I'm trying to use it on my husband and myself.
Ever since a close friend of mine got pregnant, I find myself talking more and more about when I have kids. At first I thought that I should stop because not only was it freaking my husband out but I was getting nervous, too. Talking about things seems to make them more real. We used to start sentences about our kids with "Someday when we have kids…" but now it has turned into just "When we have kids…" Part of me thinks that is a good thing and part of me still wants to go screaming for the hills. It is kind of like waiting for a major surgery. You know that you need the surgery, that although there could be complications there probably won't be, and that your life will be better afterwards. But none of that makes going under the knife any less scary.
Therefore I'm trying to psych my husband and myself into it. I don't know if he has noticed but I casually mention our kids golfing with him or cooking with me. I know that I'm jumping forward quite a few steps but I figure I should start with the good stuff. And I also slide in things about our cats interacting with a toddler or where we will move my writing desk when the room becomes a nursery. This all may sound sick and manipulative but I'm hoping it works on me as much as him. I guess I'm thinking the sooner we get used to the idea of kids, the sooner we will want to have them.
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