• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I used to do this for my girlfriend over the phone when she couldn’t sleep. It started as reading short stories to her but eventually I realized it was much less about the stories I was reading and more about hearing me speak so I started reading my physics textbook or history I was interested in. Honestly I learned a lot, can’t thank her enough. Made me a better speaker as well

    She never made it through a short story before passing out anyway lol

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    3 months ago

    I desperately want to read to to someone every night. That’s like ugh… my dream

    How does one acquire a wife? Asking for a friend of a friend

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    3 months ago

    Can confirm - my husband and I started reading to each other years ago. It’s not all the time, maybe a couple of books a year, but always on holiday - it’s an awesome way to be together rather than each stuck into your own book world.

    Would recommend!

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    3 months ago

    I sleep in the couch for her. It’s romantic. Her body is able to detect murmurs in the hearts of ants trying to steal scraps from the kitchen floor. In fact she detected most earthquakes after the 70’s several hours before the most sensitive instruments. My job is to romantically lay here immobile between the time darkness falls and the the time the sun shows up again and until noon on weekends of I can help it.

    It’s impossible so she’s always pissed at me for waking her up.

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      3 months ago

      Are you me? You forgot to mention that she gets up to pee 5-6 times a night. Which is what often really wakes her up but she’s in too a belligerent mood to admit.