Go to Bed Mad

....Always go to bed mad. 

Especially if it's an argument with your spouse, with whom you share a marital bed.  

Unless the 'madness' is a result of a disclosure or discovery of infidelity or, God forbid, MURDER, then quite simply, go to bed.  

Mad.  

Even if you feel more comfortable (or less MAD) if one of you sleeps on the couch or in the guest bedroom, things are always better in the morning.  

It took me decades to learn this, and the right man (that would be my HUSBAND) to trust it, but in fact, once we stopped trying (and most often failing, in addition to losing valuable hours of sleep before the alarm clock went off at 430 every morning) to work things out til 3 am, although conventional wisdom (and biblical, thank you my Forever Friend for sharing Ephesians 4:25-27 - "Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.  And do not give the devil a foothold.") dictates otherwise, going to bed 'mad' has most definitely worked out for us.  

Well, for me at least.  

You'd have to ask Mr. Aphorism himself, but I'm pretty sure he's keen on the "go to bad mad" theory.  He's never flipped on the bedroom lights when I was fast asleep to start or continue an argument.  


So, to summarize:


Go to bed mad, because things will ALWAYS be better in the morning.


At least for me (us) they are.

MOST always anyway.


~H~