I wish my significant other would magically transform himself into something other than a figment of my imagination (signed, still sadly single).

Maybe I'm just lucky, but after a decade of marriage I can't think of a single thing that I wish he would do more/better.

Okay, here's one: I wish he was more eager to try new foods and restaurants. Pretty minor thing, though.

Wear shorter skirts and higher heels. A skirt cant be too short or a heel to high.
And leave the panties at home.

Tell me he missed me when I pick him up at the airport tomorrow.

He's so practical by nature that he won't think to tell me he missed me because he knows he missed me and since we were apart, that should be apparent to me. It is, but it wouldn't hurt to tell me since knowing it is comforting while hearing it sends shivers up my spine, etc.

Oh Anon, you must be really tall or like shorter women. My guy loves me in heels but likes it when I go barefoot, since I'm pretty tall and he likes to be taller at some point in the evening.

Propose!

I wish my significant other would keep his word. Too often he says he will do something, but never follows through.

Buy me little trinkets... Stupid, but sometimes it's nice to have a little surprise. Nothing big, maybe a candy bar or something.

Fire the two fools he has working for him so when he comes home at night he's not so emotionally drained from working with them.

Propose...

It ain't something she's likely to do anyway...

I wish my "significant other" (my, what a hackneyed description) would be a kneejerk liberal like the wonderful intellects at the Washington Post who worship Saint Barry of Obama.

...make himself known. Wherever or whoever he might be.

Give me a male heir.

Let me hang out with my good buddy Jeff Smoker more often.

I voted other - wish he'd stop smoking.

Wish he could manage his days better so that we could spend more time together. I'm tired of spending my evenings alone!

I wish we could go out more often. He loves spending our evenings with the kids. It's not that I don't enjoy it, but I already spend my days with them. I do love the family time, so I can't really complain.

I wish my significant other would exist - sadly there seems to be a real shortage of attractive, smart, cool, fun, unselfish, sexy ladies in the DC area. You might get one or a couple of those attributes in any given one, but it seems to be impossible to find a single girl that has all of them. I'll keep looking...

Not be so far away!

Eat more healthy.

Go on ritalin or something. For the love of god.

Single guy: Really? A shortage of good ladies? I'm attractive, smart, cool, fun, unselfish, and sexy - as are several of my friends. Yet somehow the only single guys I meet are one or more of unintelligent, rude, snobs, unattractive, boring/ humorless or not interested once you're past 29. Where are the good guys hanging out? Because all those single girls would come a'running!

.. pick up his tighty whities from the floor, not flung at my direction before getting in the shower, or chase the poor cat around in them.

..Live, he's got terminal cancer.

Go on ritalin or something. For the love of god.

Posted by: Anonymous | October 10, 2008 12:59 PM

THAT IS FUNNY!

echoing single gal here. I am really perplexed about what guys are looking for. Other than cute model-looking blondes that put out. Why is it that overweight balding guys think these bombshells would be interested?

To the single ladies who replied, my comment wasn't meant to be a jab though it may have come off like one. I think I do have realistic expectations but don't want to settle. I realize I'm not a model who can expect supermodels to throw themselves at my feet, however I'm also not bald or fat. I guess my problem is I have to work too much.

For guys or gals, the singles scene is tough especially once you hit 30 and our numbers have dropped (especially for the so-called better prospects who seemingly already married). I guess there are a few of us good ones out there, but how to find each other?

I wish my significant other would...Go away. Just go away, and not come back. Any single ladies out there want a sloppy, inconsiderate, smelly, lout of a husband?

... turn the oven off.

Would come to see me and ask me to marry him, (When I find him). (lol)

Single Guy, you sound like a decent fellow so this isn't meant to be a jab - but how does "I'm not bald or fat" translate into "I deserve to only date a woman who is attractive, smart, cool, fun, unselfish, and sexy"? Those are all great qualities to look for, but it seems like guys think they're entitled to the total package no matter what they have to offer themselves.

I wish my boyfriend would quit smoking! He talks about it occasionally, & I try not to nag, but I'm not sure that 'someday' will ever come!

Wear shorter skirts and higher heels. A skirt cant be too short or a heel to high.
And leave the panties at home.

Posted by: Anonymous | October 10, 2008 8:57 AM

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Hopefully your SO is not a guy!!!

Go on ritalin or something. For the love of god.

Posted by: Anonymous | October 10, 2008 12:59 PM

THAT IS FUNNY!

Posted by: NALL92 | October 10, 2008 1:11 PM

I wish I were kidding! It's killing me.

be more self-confident

Not have chosen to celebrate our 18th anniversary by sleeping with his admin. I didn't know you could feel so much pain and still survive.

Leave his wife.

oh wow....I never know just how good I really do have it until I remember those old, cold days of single-parent-hood. I wish my SO would keep on putting up with me, even though it's been a tough 14+ years (second time around for both of us) but I think we are FINALLY getting to the point where we are accepting the 'other' person we married (not the dating facade) and learning how to maintain our own self respect while respecting the other's quirks and needs. Not an easy task, but surely this simple of courtesy and respect has been the cornerstone of many, many successful marriages...all hardships and differences taken into consideration...really...

other: To not be too macho and stoic to express that he cares about me! He's a good man but I am dying from lack of romance.

I wish my significant other would...Go away. Just go away, and not come back. Any single ladies out there want a sloppy, inconsiderate, smelly, lout of a husband?

Posted by: Me | October 10, 2008 1:57 PM

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Why don't you leave HIM instead of waiting if you're that unhappy? Life is too short!

Leave his wife.

Posted by: The Other Woman | October 10, 2008 2:34 PM

Yeah, right....you have a better chance of winning the lottery. Sounds like someone who either has no self-respect or no guts to go out there and face reality

I wish my significant other would discipline me more often.

I wish my significant other would stop asking me to go on ritalin.

I wish my significant other would talk dirty. All the other times I can't get her to shut up, but we get into bed and she turns into a clam, jeez.

...just keep being him. He's perfect just the way he is.

Well, ok, maybe he could stop throwing yesterday's dirty underwear on the bathroom floor, since the laundry chute is just a foot further away from his drop point. But I'm not complaining.

... want to vote for McCain. Then we could just say we're canceling each other out anyway, so might as well skip it.

Learn to love (okay, tolearte might be more likely) our cats :o) We only have 2- it's not like we're overrun!

I have to agree with Jen. Washington is a great place, but it'd be better with someone else.

tHE PROBLEM WITH MY BOYFRIEND IS THAT HE LOVES ME. i DON'T LIKE THAT damn capslock!

I don't like that kissy stuff.

I want to be strictly bound, cruelly whipped, and brutally raped; preferably by a gang of his drunken friends.

You'd be VERY surprised at how difficult that is to find.

-- faye kane, homeless brain
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