Relationship Meme

What is a meme anyway? Whatever it is, here's one about Owen and I stolen from my (and someone else's) favorite website.

What are your middle names?
Elizabeth
David


How long have you been together?
We've been married five years this August, together on and off for 150 years.


How long did you know each other before you started dating?
We met in Grade 10 Geography but did not officially start ‘going out’ until Grade 11.


Who asked whom out?
Owen asked me out.


How old are each of you?
I'm 34, he's 35.


Whose siblings do you see the most?
Mine.


Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple?
Parenting. Not that raising Eilish is hard or that it is trying on our relationship per se. Just the logistics of raising a child while we both work full time and at different times.

Did you go to the same school?
Yes, high school.


Are you from the same home town?
I was born in Newfoundland, raised in Kitchener while Owen was born and raised in Toronto.


Who is smarter?
I think that Owen is more street smart than I am but I wouldn’t say one of us is necessarily smarter than the other unless we’re talking ‘Jeopardy smart’ in which case Owen has me beat. I can name all of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands (Hilton, Wilding, Todd, Fisher, Burton, Burton, Warner, Fortensky) but have no idea what the capital of Uruguay is.


Who is the most sensitive?
Ah ha ha ha ha. Next question.


Where do you eat out most as a couple?
We don’t ‘eat out’ as much as ‘take out’ and our favorite place to order out from when we were footloose and fancy free (that is, childless) was Butler’s Pantry on Roncevalles.

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Which is further, Dominican or Cuba? See, Jeopardy smarts would come in handy right about now.

Who has the craziest exes?
We are each others crazy exes; therefore Owen has the craziest ex.


Who has the worst temper?
I am quick to lose my temper while Owen has a slow burn and then watch out.


Who does the cooking?
Me.


Who is the neat-freak?
Neither of us but man, someone should be.


Who is more stubborn?
Owen.


Who hogs the bed?
Whoever gets their first.


Who wakes up earlier?
Me. Occupational hazard.


Where was your first date?
We went to see ‘Look Who’s Talking’ in Kitchener.


Who is more jealous?
These days if I think someone is hitting on him I think, ‘good for you!’

How long did it take to get serious?
Owen is Irish and the Irish mate for life.

Who eats more?
Now that he is trying to quite smoking Owen is putting the food away at an alarming rate. When I was pregnant though I used to hide pizza boxes so he wouldn’t know that not only did I eat an entire pizza, I didn’t save any for him!

Who does the laundry?
Me. Owen cleans and does the dishes.

Who's better with the computer?
Me, yet another occupational hazard.


Who drives when you are together?
Owen because he thinks he’s a better driver when in reality he’s a slower driver.