TMI

 

(I mean it.  You may want to change channels now before you can read enough to agree with me that this might be too much information; more than you needed to know.)

 

Judy’s mom, the Keeper and Dispenser of folk knowledge, offered several important pieces of advice to Judy right before we got married.  Over the years Judy and I have discussed her advice; understanding some of it, disregarding some of it, and some of it we still haven’t figured out.  One wisdom she thought important enough to pass on, we have since discovered actually has a name in folklore; the Bean Jar Theory of Married Sex.

 

It goes like this:  Put a bean (or dime or penny) in a jar every time you have sex during your first year of marriage. Then take one out every time you have sex after the first year. You'll never empty the jar.

 

This bit of folklore did not turn out to be true in our case.  We’ve been running a serious bean jar deficit ever since 1969.  J

 

I know.  TMI.