The silver lining

Instead of being all depressive and morose and pissy about the state of this relationship, I've decided to take a different look at matters.

Look, his being a workaholic could be a good thing indeed! Eventually, if you marry him, he'll make lots of money. Since you plan on being a professor, this will be very useful. You will be able to use your entire meagre salary on taking care of your dog, trips to Paris, handbags and shoes. And then you have his salary to decorate the house! And to pay for everything else, of course.

And since he'll always be in the office, you can have your string of cabana boys to entertain you. Nothing wrong with that. What he doesn't know won't hurt him. You can even bake cookies every once in awhile to keep everyone happy.

You wouldn't be settling, you'd be taking advantage of the situation. And then it'll spare any unpleasant break-ups and that icky process of dating.

It really made more sense last night when I was drunk. It also didn't sound as cold and calculating then.