Thursday, June 17, 2010

Couple Communication 101:


Jerry Warriner: In a half an hour, we'll no longer be Mr. and Mrs. Funny, isn't it.
  • Lucy Warriner: Yes, it's funny that everything's the way it is on account of the way you feel.
  • Jerry Warriner: Huh?
  • Lucy Warriner: Well, I mean, if you didn't feel that way you do, things wouldn't be the way they are, would they? I mean, things could be the same if things were different.
  • Jerry Warriner: But things are the way you made them.
  • Lucy Warriner: Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again. 
Five Minutes later: 
  • Lucy Warriner: You're all confused, aren't you?
  • Jerry Warriner: Aren't you?
  • Lucy Warriner: No.
  • Jerry Warriner: Well you should be, because you're wrong about things being different because they're not the same. Things are different except in a different way. You're still the same, only I've been a fool... but I'm not now.
  • Lucy Warriner: Oh.
  • Jerry Warriner: So long as I'm different don't you thing that... well maybe things could be the same again... only a little different, huh?