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Sean of the South

How to be Married

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A little love advice. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, and his column appears w...

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How to be married.

0:36.9

Whatever you once thought about marriage, forget it.

0:40.5

People have matrimony all wrong.

0:43.1

It's not about chapels, bouquets, or groomscakes with deer antlers.

0:47.4

Marriage is about vowing before God that you will hereby spend three-quarters of your life,

0:52.1

painstakingly fussing about what is for supper.

0:56.3

Look, son, I know you think you're marrying a girl, but you're not. What you're really doing

1:01.2

is you're marrying someone with low blood sugar who is unable to decide between butterbeams and

1:06.2

olive garden. It will go like this. The moment you'll wake, your wife rolls over, blowing her stink breath into your innocent young face.

1:15.5

What do you want for supper tonight, dear?

1:17.6

She will ask, like Scarlett O'Hara.

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How should I know, you might say?

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I just woke up.

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And then you will roll onto your other side, and there your dog stares at you with even

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