Butterfly Theory

In the last couple weeks southeastern Wisconsin has been inundated with boxelder bugs.  They seemed to be everywhere.  Emily couldn't stand it.  She would freak out if she saw them.  We sprayed the house and outside with bug spray....to no avail.  I even saw 3 of them inside a gas pump while I was pumping gas.  They found their way INSIDE the glass screen where you can tell how much gas you are putting into your car.  These things could get their way ANYWHERE.

These bugs got me thinking about something else.  I asked myself why women (Emily specifically) hated bugs so much.  For the most part they are pretty harmless and extremely easy to kill.  Then I asked myself why women loved butterflies so much.  (It has to be the most popular tattoo that women put on themselves...except for maybe flowers.)  Aren't butterflies just bugs with beautiful wings? 

This is what a butterfly looks like without its wings.

Then I started to think.....aren't we (as men) lucky that women see things like this.  It seems to me that they only need to fall in love with 1 aspect of something (or see 1 attribute that is beautiful) and are able to ignore the rest.  

I know when I was dating (before I met Em).  I went out with several girls who never got a 2nd date for some very off the wall reasons.  It didn't matter how good looking they were, if there was a "deal breaker" then it was over.  Some of those such deal breakers included:  a girl owned too many Precious Moments figurines, a girl owned a quilt rack, and one whose mother liked Antonio Banderas just a little too much.  I definitely had the opposite of the Butterfly Theory (probably because I'm a dude).

No matter how much The Dude cries and keeps Emily up at night, or how smelly his diaper gets (and it gets pretty smelly), or how many "blow-outs" he has in a row.....Emily smiles the entire time and thinks he is the cutest thing ever.  (I'd go so far to say that she thinks his "blow-outs" are the cutest blow-outs of all time.)

Thank goodness for that outlook on life.  I don't think many men share that same outlook.

(But don't be too afraid of the regular bugs.....they aren't THAT bad.)