As I type this (this is Pel) I am sitting next to Be My Escape (who saw the entry the other day on Twicrack) and we have tears rolling down our face from laughing so hard. All we can say is now the guys who get all wrapped up in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, etc. and their wives and girlfriends just don’t care, now you know what it’s like.
You really want to put down all liquids before reading or there’s a chance that you are going to short out your monitor. Just one of the gems from this blog:
“It was an unusual evening at our house tonight. Claiming that my blog has “shamed her,” the Missus cooked dinner and did the dishes afterwards, before withdrawing behind her laptop. This may seem like a small thing, but it’s the most attention she’s paid me since she’s discovered Edward Cullen.
I felt she deserved a reward. (Positive reinforcement is the key to winning your woman back from the cold, grasping arms of that undead home wrecker).”
Thanks guys for the no drinks warning. Saved us some serious explaining to the IT guys at work. Those 10 superheroes that could whip Edward’s butt – haven’t laughed so hard in an age. Thanks for the read!
This is too funny…..at least there are other men who feel like my husband. I don’t know what exactly has happened to me, but since seeing the movie and reading all four and half books…..something inside of me has awaken that apparently was lost some years ago….. I know my husband as well as my family thinks I’ve lost it. Now I’ve finally convinced my husband to at least try the first book and give it a shot….. I told him that guys could actually learn a lot from Edward Cullen.
I know what you mean. I think my inner-15-year-old was hiding, dormant. She’s wide awake now. My poor, poor husband. He has joined the “Twilight Widowers Club.” And he’s not happy about it. LOL
Me too, so nice to know that I am not crazy.
I can so relate. I used to be sappy and emotional when I was a teenager, but somehow lost that part of me as I grew up (I’m 33). After reading the Saga, I’ve gotten back in touch with that passionate side of me. I’m pretty nuts about it all and LOVE LOVE LOVE EDWARD!!! And luckily, my boyfriend is a lot like him, but not undead or sparkly (sigh). But he’s an old soul, too, and very protective of me. However, while he truly appreciates that I’m not dead inside anymore, I’m sure he feels like a Twilight widower.
OME!!!! I laughed so hard I could hardly talk. I showed and read some of it to my poor exasperated husband and on one of the ‘Tricks of the Trade’ entry it lists the stages of the widower. My husband skulked away to his office claiming he’s still in the anger phase. Oh my! I can’t stop laughing!
OMG, Autumn everything you said is exactly me, It has awakened something in me too, like i’m a teenager again, and i’m trying to get my husband to read the books. My family thinks i’ve lost it, and i’m so glad to hear i’m not the only one, cause i was starting to think maybe there was something wrong with me for being so obsessed. The books and movie has been a great escape for me, since my Mom passed away in the summer, kind of took away the numbness I was feeling..made me feel happy!
haha thanks for the link totally AMAZING
actually i want to be the “Twilight Widower” and not the “Twilight addicted” …its so hard to believe that Edward doesnt exist!!!
and love it when he talks about his wife and writes “the wife”.. hahaha !!
just like most of the ladies who have commented here Twilight has opened up something inside this 30 yr old mother..i felt like i was growing old doing the same mundane thing every day till i found Twilight…now that 16 yr old girl bottles up inside of me has come out to play!! lol…
Reading t his article truly made me laugh…my hubby would be a perfect canidate (sic) for the Twilight Widower club…he thinks he is the only husband out there who goes thru having an obsessed wife of Twilight…i can’t wait to tell him he is wrong!! thanks for the blog…i loved it!!!
Evie
Thank you for posting this blog! I now feel a bit better, especially after reading all these comments….my inner 16 YO has also reappeared! I had forgotten what a hopeless romantic I had once been….however my husband is wondering where this odd girl came from?! Ha! He and I had a few laughs this morning reading through the blog…and I have now sent the link to my future brother in-law so he is prepared!!! I also don’t feel so bad knowing I am not the only 28 YO woman who has bookmarked all the fan sites to check on updates each morning…hehehehe!
My husband has ZERO problems with my obsession … he thwarts all inklings to be annoyed with his reality that I now walk around in a constant state of arousal and pounce on him regularly … he is only pissed that there are only 4 books and hopes I don’t get over it
I have the same type of husband lol In fact he is constantly accompanying me to the book isle of our bx and is always trying to HELP me find books to continue my so called behavior lol it’s hilarious I get comments from him like “oh here honey how about this one”
Gosh, I sooo appreciate that I’m not alone. =) I don’t know about the inner 16-year-old or anything, I’m hoping that at 28 it’s still okay to be this way. I have two children who are getting ready to be 2 and 4 and I guess I have been doing the routine thing way to much as well. I became a stay at home mom and must have been living life as a zombie or something…I mean I thought I was completely happy and normal. Until Twilight and now I’m glad I’m not what I thought completely happy and normal was…I’m majorly kicked my old ways up 10K notches or something…lol. I have bought the soundtracks and my three year old say’s “I don’t want to listen to that again.” I told him that after listening to the Veggie Tales and Backyardigans for two years we’re listening to whatever mommy would like to hear..lol. I also have taken up on Bobby Long and Sam Bradley if you guys haven’t heard them. Got to catch them both in Nashville TN about 45 min. from my house…..gosh I’m totally this other person now from who I used to be. Don’t know where the old Autumn went, but if this is “wrong” I don’t want to ever be “right” again!
i wish i was 28–i’m 50! and most the people i know are over that and all have twi-widowers! ha ha i would have house cleaned after work, supper done, clothes washed and pajama’s on a 7:oo. wave goodnight to my family and tell um, i’m going to forks, see you tomorrow. i thought i was crazy, seems i was normal! lol i am the one who got my 20 y/o and 30 y/o daughters reading. they recovered when they were through, i did not. holding on for midnight sun.
LOL…Kar…you’re still not along guaranteed. When my husband and I went to see Sam Bradley and Bobby Long we noticed a huge line outside of the bar waiting to get in. I heard several conversations while we were in line and decided to join the one behind us. There was one lady who has six kids, who travels a lot apparently. She had come in from Orlando. Another who had driven in from two hours or so away from Alabama and another who had flown in from New Jersey. They all were devoted and over 40 at least. I so thought that I would be the cougar type, since apparently one of the criteria for the Twilight Moms club is only to be 25 (that was such a downer when I read that). I know that we may not be teenagers or cougars or maybe we might be, but we’re still close the the actors ages considering some of us could still be sibilings ages. Feel how you want to about it regardless of who you are. I just see that this qualifies you to be a “more experienced” fan!
OMG Autumn and Kar……thank you…..I’m so happy to hear there are more like me on here (I’m 42, divorced2x..and not because of Edward lol). I fully admit to sailing over the edge on this one and frequently refer to Edward Cullen as my fictional boyfriend lol. In fact I felt like breaking up with my fictional boyfriend when it occurred to me while reading Eclipse that he has a fictional girlfriend! lol. My friends and family too think I have lost my mind, but I don’t claim to have been in my right mind in the first place lol. I can be a happy Twilight Cougar……wait, isn’t Mountain Lion Edwards favorite food? At any rate, I have had way too much fun with this, and I am so glad a client convinced me to read the books. I can’t thank SM enough for writing them and allowing me a place to be a kid again. I’m reading the books again for the third time, and really, I have no intentions of stopping lol. It’s just too much fun!!
THAT WAS SOOOO FREAKIN FUNNY- ITS GOOD HE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR ABOUT IT. I WONDER… HAS ANYONE’S HUSBAND OR BOYFRIEND GOTTEN MAD?
I think my husband more or less enjoys making fun of me. He’s told some people he works with only to have met the response that they absolutely love Twilight too. I told him that if this is the least I can get involved in after years of having to hear all about Football and see, hear and dream the song to ESPN that he should get over it. I think he’s actually more jealous than mad believe it or not.
This was so funny, but even worse, so totally dead on for about half of the way too old women in America. A teenager can go to her room and gush over the books and cast all night and affect no one. I can’t even spend ten minutes without needing to either respond to or neglect an “I need you Mommy” moment. My husband is also lost between the “where have you gone to, now?” mood and the “happy to have the teen you back” mood. But, that may be because I am closing in on menopause. Anyway, here’s to the blogger and his lovely wife and the similarities all of us old married girls share!
Thanks for the web site! It was so funny, I cried. I really needed to know that I was not the only Twilight obsessed person out there. Lucky for me, I think my husband is glad that I have a “hobby” as he calls it. Although he is not that happy, that I am considering a third read through the books, when I finish my second time through. Thanks again, it was great!! I can’t wait to show my hubby.
THANKS AUTUMN I THOUGHT 50 WAS TO OLD, BUT I HAVE ENJOYED THIS SOOO MUCH, AND THE LADIES AT THE COURTHOUSE ARE 55 AND 56! OUR BELLSOUTH EQUIPMENT REPAIRMAN IS 36 AND HAS 2 CHILDREN. HIS WIFE MADE HIM GET IT ON CD AND HE CAN ONLY LISTEN IN THE SUV. SHE IS A TWI WIDOW. NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE HAS SPENT ALOT OF TIME SITTING IN HIS CAR ON DRIVEWAY! I
THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUS WHEN HE TOLD US. KEEP US POSTED ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN NASHVILLE, WE GO REALLY OFTEN,(MY DAUGHTER WENT FOR LUNCH THERE TODAY!)DEPRESSING WE DON’T GET ANY CONVENTIONS.
Hilarious!!!
I’m overwhelmed with the positive feedback that I am getting thus far.
Thanks to Pel and the Lexicon for the gracious review.
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I read his blog and it was hilarious. I convinced my husband to read the saga so we would have something to converse about and he admitted that he liked the books. I read him some of the blogs and he was laughing so hard. He admits he can get a tad jealous. Some of the best stuff i have ever read.
I can so relate. I used to be sappy and emotional when I was a teenager, but somehow lost that part of me as I grew up (I’m 33). After reading the Saga, I’ve gotten back in touch with that passionate side of me. I’m pretty nuts about it all and LOVE LOVE LOVE EDWARD!!! And luckily, my boyfriend is a lot like him, but not undead or sparkly (sigh). But he’s an old soul, too, and very protective of me. However, while he truly appreciates that I’m not dead inside anymore, I’m sure he feels like a Twilight widower.
Your blog is so informative … ..I just bookmarked you….keep up the good work!!!!
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