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| Sithu Ye Yint and Win Lae Yee :D |
Recently, a magazine interviewed me and fielded this question :
To what degree do you owe your success to your husband? He seems to be very supportive on your endeavours.
Hmmmm..... first of all, I don't owe my success to him. Second of all, he's supportive because he doesn't wanna a) sleep on the couch or b) be locked out of the apartment
LMFAO !!!!
Oyyyy.... I'm still recovering from laughter at my own statement above. LOL. Ok, ok.... let's get serious and I'm a answer that in full honesty, bare-nakedly.
The answer really is that I don't owe him my success. Because I am not "successful" or at least I don't see myself that way. I get by. But he is without a shred of doubt, my pillar of strength. I have been really happy to pursue a lot of my passion projects over the last one year plus. From my social work to my fitness pursuits to my lecturing, right down to my additional consultation work. And he's the man behind all of that. Let's just say - he gave me little nudges for things he knew I was passionate about but wasn't so sure about committing.
Last November, I completed my Fitness Instructor Training (guess who signed me up for this?) and then my coach asked me to go for my Crossfit L-1 Trainer certification as well. Jeez, there were exams and all, ok! When we went to Bangkok to get my exams and certification done, MOH booked us into a nice studio apartment place where there was a kitchen and living room and all that. And I was like "isn't that a bit OTT for just a weekend??" and he went - "but there's space for you to do your last minute revisions and we can prepare a healthy breakfast for you in the morning!" and he proceeds to show me the space enthusiastically.
You see - 10 years together now, that's how he is. He's not about being passionate or romantic in the movie sense and there's no flowers or diamonds and stuff (simply put, I hate those stuff as presents!!) but he's more of an action-oriented guy. When he does things like these, it shows me without needing to tell me that despite his poker-face, his absolutely crazy busy schedule, he's got my back. And isn't that what love is about? Or when he goes away on trips and comes back with KT Tape for me or a pack of kick-ass chilli or a few packets of healthy nuts for me. Doesn't that show that he knows what makes me tick? And that to me, is really all awesomely romantic. And now that I think about it - quite hilarious. KT Tape?? Really?? LOL. Let's not forget the blink-blink lights for me to go running at 4am in the morning!! (Since I don't listen to his nagging, I guess the next best thing is keeping me safe LMAO!!)
Things have been getting busier and busier for both of us in Myanmar. We're pursuing passions and ambitions and to be honest, sometimes, we don't even have time to talk to each other that much. Given both our anti-social nature, most nights after a long day of work and seeing people, we basically don't really wanna talk. We just wanna sit around quietly, watching some bad TV to unwind. Like I said in previous years' anniversary posts, we didn't get to this stage overnight. But over time, we just understood each other better and the transition and shifting responsibilities, focus, etc were actually quite smooth. I think we've even reached a new height in our relationship where just our presence is enough to help us get over some of those crazy Myanmar moments. The most recent one being a 2-day no water situation at our new apartment. We didn't even bitch about it. We looked at one another, we had that FML look but we smiled and we just survived as we needed to. It was actually quite surreal and funny. Of course it was a SHITTY situation to be in with no water to even brush your teeth. But I don't know where this new zen came from! LOL. Just a sense that - ah, he's/she's here. We're in this together and that's cool.
Then there's the heavy-duty stuff that I did take for granted which was his "duty" so to speak - like carrying the really heavy groceries up seven floors of a bloody walk-up apartment, refilling the 20 litre drinking water bottle at home - you know, the 'man stuff' but then in April, he got his ACL operation and all of a sudden, I realized, shit, I have to do the heavy duty around the place now. I trained harder at the gym with my powerlifts :D :D :D BUT, I'm happy to inform that he's now up and about and have resumed his duties. LOL.
Because we have no kids, we entertain each other most of the time. All those pranks, hiding each other's stuff, hiding behind doors, and now that the new apartment has a doorbell and a peep-hole it adds on to our lists of "creative pranks to do" to annoy the hell out of the other person. That keeps us young at heart (and on our toes too!) and being able to laugh at our own silliness helps take us through those Myanmar moments, you know.
Contrary to what people may assume simply because I'm such a "strong" character (loud, more like), he actually wears the pants in the relationship and there are moments where I know he's mad and ok... I'm gonna go hide for awhile...... LMAO. True situation ya. Unbelievable but true. Think about it. It actually takes someone THAT MUCH STRONGER to deal with a character like mine. And we try to steer clear of talking about work, you know. We do have better things to talk about and sometimes we do debate about ideas and brands and stuff like that. I knew about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 launch through his PR Agency who invited me. Go figure. :P
He recently got a fridge magnet and out of all the fridge magnets to choose from with creative and quirky quotes, he chose a simple one that said "Bless This Home With Love and Laughter Always". LOL. I'm like - how boring. But it tells me what he values in our marriage and that's awesome because that's what I value too.
So, to my best friend and the best man a girl could ask for - Happy 7 years .... I'm sitting here, reminiscing all those crazy shit we've been through..... the time in Cambodia when I had food poisoning and I was so ill and in so much pain you offered to go get me a "happy ciggie" because we lived upstairs of Happy Pizza (till today, I don't know where that came from!! LMFAO!!), the time in Cambodia when we had no power for the entire night and you sat up all night fanning me with the blanket and we laughed and cried at our miserable situation, the time you got retrenched and we were sitting up at the rooftop of our Cambodia apartment and I said - it doesn't matter if we're poor, we'll weather it out together. And we did. Even in Myanmar, the power cuts and water rationing issues still followed us around, LOL but as usual, we weathered it out together. The time we had a waterfall and indoor swimming pool situation in our apartment in Myanmar and you said you'd go slap the landlord... and oh, oh.... remember the time the landlady didn't open the door for you because she said you were going to rape her (OMFG - LMFAO!!!!) ..... We have so many crazy hilarious shit situations to reminisce about and we got through them all - you and me, just us two.
No matter what Love, we'll weather it out together and I know we've got each other's backs. #StrongerTogether
Love You and here's to many more years to come!!
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