I often joke that I was a slacker growing up and that I missed too many days of girl school. What I mean by that is that there are a lot of things that most girls seem to just automatically know which I just don’t completely understand.

In some ways, this is a good thing. For example, I rarely fight with my boyfriend because I don’t get mad about the things that girls apparently normally get mad about. It just doesn’t come naturally to me to bicker when he wants to go out with his friends or forgets to bring me roses on Valentine’s Day.

But sometimes it’s really inconvenient not to know about girly things. For example, a friend of mine called me to get an opinion on her wedding stationery. She was going on and on about whether she should get the frangipani wedding invitations or the tiger lily wedding invitations. I tried to be helpful but I really couldn’t understand what difference it would make to the wedding. (And yes, I had to look up frangipani!)

It’s not just that I can’t select wedding stationery. It’s that I sometimes get really bored in conversations with other girls because I don’t really care about the things that they’re talking about. But I’m trying to see it all as a learning experience. Who knows, maybe I’ll want frangipani on my stationery someday!

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