Foot in Mouth (again)

I said something I probably shouldn’t have today.
Someone asked me ‘what’s the main difference between just being in a relationship, and actually living with the person you love?’
I said “When you’re in a relationship, you always see the best of each other, because when you meet up you’re excited to see each other and you want to make an effort. When you live together, it’s the opposite. You’re mostly just miserable and getting on each others tits, with the occasional good day now and then to remind you why you fell in love in the first place.”
Trouble is, the person I was talking to was Philippa.
Even though I insisted it was a joke, it’s led to the atmosphere in the house being frosty. Frostier than a polar bear’s frostbite, to be exact.
No doubt I’ll have to endure two days of silence and then two days of tears before buying some flowers to make everything A-O-K again.
Will there ever be a day when I know how to talk around women?
That’s about as likely as a day without rain in Norfolk…..

RC 18-7-12