A Premarital Test for People Who Really Want to Know
How do you know if you are really compatible? Just living together isn’t sufficient. Take this test to see if you and your maybe-intended have the stuff marriages are made of. Be warned: Some lab work is required!
You will need more than just a pencil and paper to take this test.
- You both work overtime every night the same week. See who cooks dinner.
- Your television has broken. Discover that you have lost the receipt and guarantee. Decide whose fault it is.
- You have spent fifteen percent of your combined income on something that turned out to be a complete rip-off. What do you do? Role play.
- Buy a pet for your intended — without telling him or her.
- Stop doing your share of the housework. Find out how your partner reacts. Evaluate your feelings about yourself.
- Buy a car together. Draw straws to see who wrecks it. Discuss.
- It’s Christmas. Both families expect you to spend the day. Create a solution requiring no more than two dinners.
If you complete this test and still want to be together, you are ready to get married.
About:
Wendy Freborg is a retired social worker and former editor whose humor has appeared in Scalar Comet, American Bystander, Little Old Lady Comedy, and Defenestration. Her poetry (mostly less funny) has been published by Rat’s Ass Review, Right Hand Pointing, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and WestWard Quarterly. Her life includes a small family, enough friends and too many doctors.
Original Photography by Pavel Danilyuk via Pexels
