Introducing....The Electrician

I have mentioned my partner a few times in passing in blog posts over the past 18 months. I mentioned I had a new partner and that was about it. I have decided he really should have a post in his honour. To do this I needed to come up with a name for him, I do not use other people's real names in my blog posts unless they are some random famous person I am talking about or a fictional character although I guess then I am not really using their real names either but I digress.

I had to come up with a name so I sat and thought about it, what could I call him? I could think of plenty of wildly inappropriate names, He is a tradie so he could have been called Hot Tradie or The Tradie, there was always The Booklover but I am a booklover too and if he was to be called that then I would also want to be called that and that could get confusing very quickly. I decided on The Electrician because, well, I am not particularly creative and that is what he does for a living so it works.

The Electrician and I met many years ago at primary school. We became friends and then in high school we dated for, well, not long at all because I dumped him. I wrote him a letter explaining that I could not be his girlfriend anymore for reasons I now do not clearly remember, it had something to do with my friends not approving or something along those lines. The Electrician loves to constantly torture remind me of this letter. He tells me I broke his heart. I remind him that we were young teenagers and had no idea what a relationship was, let alone what love was. After I left the school we were both at we lost contact for a few years and found each other on Facebook again. We spoke occasionally and liked statuses and photos and then we met up again and became good friends.

We had gone out for The Electrician's birthday in December 2015 and we got a bit drunk tipsy. That night, completely unexpectedly he decided to kiss me despite us having a conversation earlier that day about me not wanting to be with anyone and we were 'unofficially' together from then on. We officially decided to be together in March 2016 and we have been happy ever since. He is kind and loving and generous. The Electrician took on my kids as his own and supported me through some hard times and celebrated during the happy times.

The Electrician also, well, annoys me. He likes to move closer and closer to me in bed so I am right at the edge, at risk of falling out and sometimes he elbows me in the back when he is asleep but I am sure I annoy him too. I make him watch chick flicks and give a vague answer when he asks when I will get my drivers' licence. He can consume his body weight in pizza which I guess doesn't annoy me, I just don't like pizza that much.

We have an ongoing argument that will probably never end. He is wrong and I am right. He loves white chocolate and white chocolate just isn't chocolate. We will never agree. I fear that we will be 80 and still having this argument.

So there you have it, that is The Electrician. I am showing him this post before I publish it so hopefully he likes it, even though I did say he was wrong.