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Husbands and Wives

12:23 PM, Monday, 5 June, 2006

Most people probably already realise that I'm engaged to the lovely Yehia. Whilst it's not the easiest thing to arrange a wedding by long-distance, things are going super dooper and I have the fun of letting him do all the work for it! Lucky I trust his taste!!! Interestingly, in some Papua New Guinean cultures, there isn't a lot of difference between being engaged and being married. So it's just easier for me to say that I'm married than explain the difference, though this is often confusing for people when I start talking about wedding plans.

This fluidity of marriage, though, sometimes has unexpected surprises. When we first arrived in the country another volunteer, Anthony, used to take another girl and I into his work during weekends to check our email. Every weekend we would trot past the security guard, stay a couple of hours and trot back again. Little did we know that this was quite suspicious activity, until the guard asked Anthony one Monday morning, 'Hey, are those girls your wives? They follow you everywhere!'

When Anthony told me this I just laughed, and told him he'd better behave himself or his wives would get upset. But, when we were out on the weekend Anthony met an important person from the SP brewery who invited him to the bar at the brewery... where there is unlimited beer! I am now considering pulling my pseudo-wifely rights and making him take me along. I'm not sure if it will work - I think I will have to cook for him a lot this week.
But there is only so much that a pseudo-wife can nag before her pseudo-husband ditches her, so it had better be a good meal! Lucky he's a gentleman!!!

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Just so long as you're having a good time, I guess it doesn't matter what others think!

Posted by: Susanna | June 5, 2006 7:12 PM

Why have one husband when you can have two? The more the merrier?!

Posted by: Katia | June 7, 2006 6:01 PM

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