Let’s use ‘plastic silverware’ as an umbrella term that translates to ‘anything that doesn’t really matter.’ When you and your fiance begin planning this brilliant episode entitled “Wedding” - whether it be your first or a rerun - you’ll similarly begin noticing that no couple is bullet proof. Because this day conjures for your bride the highest forms of happiness and anxiety and conjures for you the deepest feelings of dread and final destiny - there’s bound to be some bloodshed (figuratively speaking...?). When you find yourself barking at each other over what kind of bread to serve, whether or not to invite creepy Aunt Zelda, how many rose petals will appear on the walkway - you’re picking fights over plastic silverware. While it’s necessary to be as patient with your partner as possible and remember that both of you are slightly (an understatement) on edge, it’s also essential that you remain watchful for signs of worse problems.
If you simply can’t manage to make up at the end of the night, even though the tiff was totally miniscule and you attempted to apologize, proceed with caution. Psychologists claim that we are aware of our partner’s most significant faults within weeks of meeting them, but that we blind ourselves to the signals (blinded, most often, by sex). But by the time you’re trying on your best collared shirt and buying up a motherload of hand-painted napkins, you should be able to unshield your eyes and see the truth. If the truth is tumultuous arguments over tablecloths for the rest of your life, you’d better be ready to wrestle (not in the way you did when you first met).
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