my husband is great!

there, i said it! and i don't feel bad for saying it, why should i? but the truth is i don't get to say it often enough. when friends call and ask how my husband and i are anything beyond "good" is just way too much. its the unspoken rule among women friends - we're there for you after a breakup, when you're sick of yet another fruitless blind-date, and we're thrilled when you get engaged, but we don't want to hear more than a fine or a good when it comes to a successful relationship.  we women love to kvetch, and its not nearly as interesting when things are going well. i feel bad talking about how great he is to my single friends, because then i'm rubbing it in. i can't talk about it to my engaged friends because then i'm taking away from their great moments to come or passing unwanted advice, and i can't even talk about it with my married friends because if their husband hasn't been mr. wonderful too then i'm saying my husband is better than yours.  i think we should say it more often, to our friends and to our husbands. lets throw out that crappy stereotype that husbands can never live up to wives' expectations, that we can only talk about them when they're doing something wrong. 

let me be the first to start: i love my husband, he's great! he's thoughtful, he's considerate, he's always putting me first and making sure i always feel like a princess. he makes me accountable for my actions and encourages me to be my best. that's just the short version....sorry, its not as interesting as if i was dishing on some terrible, 'you won't believe what my husband did today' story.