If you want to know wht your prospective spouse will be like when married look at the parents

Check out the parents.

DW was talking to DD the other day. She told her to ask any prospective boyfriend if he likes to have the radio on all the time. DW loves it to be quiet. When she stays by herself it is perfectly quiet. I find that unnerving. She drives with the radio off. I like the radio on all the time and to have the radio on when I go to sleep. She hates that.

In addition I like to turn the radio on about 4 AM to listen to a special program that comes on from 4 to 7 AM. I can see why that would be annoying. She suffers in silence most of the time, pretending to be asleep.

But you would not have known that before I was married. I used to drive in the car without the radio on. I did listen to music, something I do rarely now, but not all the time.

No you would have to look to my mom if you were going to predict my present behavior. My mom always had the TV on, all day and all night. She left TV's on in rooms all over the house. You would get into trouble if you turned off the TV even if she was not in the room.

I "rebelled" by not doing this with the TV but I now keep a radio in pretty much every room in the house. And they are often on when I am not in the room.

So if you wanted to know about my bad habit of having background noise on all the time, you would have to have looked to how one of my parents behaved. I remember as a child going into their bedroom very late to see the TV with static. That was in the days when stations went off the air. But if I turned if off she would wake up immediately.

I was told by several people when I was young to look to the parents of the person to see what they would be like when they are older. I knew they were right, sort of, but I never took it seriously. I figured me and my honey would be different. But we aren't.

If you are wiser than I and heed the advise of many people you will look to the parents of your honey to see what they will be like when they are older. For most of us we will not change our behavior because of it, no matter how shocking that fact might be. We love our beau too much. But don't be surprised. My wife is a lot like her mom and aunt. I am a lot like my dad. It's reality. It's hard not to be. You might as well embrace it.