The Great Ganesha

An article from two weekends ago in the WSJ talks about what happens to a marriage as technology gets more and more programmed for individual use. If you’re married, you know where this is going. He likes techno, she likes rock. He likes sci fi, she likes romantic comedies. And that leads us to some subterfuge:

Waking up at 5 a.m., while his wife and daughter are still asleep, he pads into the darkened kitchen, logs onto his computer and changes the Netflix order to put his favorite movies on top. He knows the warehouse ships the movies by about 7 a.m., so by the time his wife realizes what he’s done, it’ll be too late. “It’s not grounds for murder, but it is irritating,” Ms. De Chellis [the wife] says. [link]

Man, that’s devious. Fortunately, I control the Netflix in our marriage, so there’s no issue about choosing movies. Of course, a bad choice (i.e., one that the wife does not like) will lie there unwatched for months on end, but that’s for a different post. Getting back to the article, things get murkier as we turn to blogging. See what happens if the couple have a common blog:

They agreed to give each other veto power over posts, which he exercised when she wanted to shout out into the blogosphere about his failure to do the dishes. “That’s a real sensitive issue,” says Mr. Griffioen, 30… Readers of the site…would have blown it out of proportion, he says: “They’re going to turn it into this whole thing of how I don’t keep up my end of the relationship.”

Veto power rocks. The consequences of publishing a post on her husband’s failure to do the dishes would be devastating. Trust me, I have three sisters-in-law. I know. [Incidentally, if one of them is reading this - I'm just kidding! See the Humor tag below? It's supposed to be funny!]

As for starting a joint-blog? Well, I’ll let the article do the talking:

As for sharing one blog, the idea “never came up,” he says. “It would be like saying, ‘Let’s share our underwear.’ ” [link]

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