Yesterday Mick and I saw The Dark Knight. Having seen Batman Begins recently on DVD, I was mildly curious to see The Dark Knight but knew he really wanted to see it. Though happy to go along, I expected he’d enjoy the movie more than I did.
The Dark Knight was what I refer to as a ‘boy movie’ with lots of action, violence and things blowing up right left and centre. Of course it was also more than that and made me think about some themes it raised, but that happened after, not while, watching the movie. If you want to have a look at some of those thoughts you‘ll find them here.
Recently Courtney wrote about opposites. That’s us.
As I said in my intro marriage blog, Mick and I have very different tastes in movies as well as music etc, so over the years it’s meant some compromise on both our parts. I will go to a movie he wants to see. He will come with me to a movie I want to see or do something I want to do etc.
One example I remember was when we were overseas- our first and only trip overseas. We were in Salzburg and naturally they had a Sound of Music tour. If there’s one movie my husband hates it is The Sound of Music. But he knew I’d love The Sound of Music tour, so he booked it and we went and spent the next couple of hours among the rest of the tourists singing songs from the musical. He drew the line at joining in the singing. His taking me on this tour was an act of love.
That’s what love and marriage is all about – putting the needs of the other person above your own and learning to compromise. Yes, it means that at times you may end up doing something you didn’t really want to do because you know your partner will enjoy it. But when you see their enjoyment it’s worth it. And often what happen is, you find out as I did yesterday that you get more out of the experience that you expected.
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