I like to think of love as being this very romantic thing. I guess love in itself is romantic, but relationships aren't. I'd like to think that the reasons that I stay in my relationship are all romantic-comedy material--the way she turns bright red when she talks to people, that she punches her pillow exactly three times before she puts her head down, the way she says the word theater--things like that. I guess that those things do contribute to us staying together, but I think it's something more simple. She fits within my A.W.R., which is, my Accepted Window of Retardation. She's not too smart and not too stupid. She doesn't get upset over too many stupid things, but she also doesn't make me feel stupid.

If everyone could just be honest about their A.W.R. there would be more happy relationships.