He Snores
Photo Credit: Jamelah (Flickr.com)
Jane didn’t know what she thought marriage would be like.
But as she lay awake in bed, listening to her husband snoring, she realized she’d never expected for it to be so dull.
Jane knew the movies she’d seen and the books she’s read weren’t real; they always made relationships look like they were so easy and effortless once you found that special person. And Jane and her husband had found things easy at first; their marriage had started off well, and they’d quickly adjusted to sleeping in the same bed and sharing the same house.
But what those stories didn’t tell you was the aftermath. There were some nights — and tonight was one of them — where Jane felt terribly alone, even with her husband sleeping beside her and snoring loudly. He’d fallen asleep at 9:00. There had been no time for cuddling, no time for sharing intimate stories or wishing each other a good night. She hadn’t even realized he’d been asleep. And when she’d tried to hug him, he’d yelled at her and went back to sleep.
Jane sighed loudly. It didn’t seem to bother him in the slightest. She looked over, and saw his eyelids shuddering. He was dreaming. She wondered about what… or who. She found herself wondering if she ever even appeared in his subconscious.
Her friends had warned her that even a good mariage was hard. She’d thanked them and told them she believed them, but secretly, she’d believed that they’d be different.
But they weren’t. And Jane knew that she, too, would be telling her unmarried friends the same sad story when they secretly believed that they were different.
Fiction, Writing Scraps | SeanJJordan | 
January 15, 2010 2:01 am
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