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Wednesday Email: Main squeeze
Only yesterday, I read that over 30% of Japanese are lonely.
Imagine that.
I suppose they don’t have a main squeeze or a squeeze of any ranking, for that matter.
Someone’s main squeeze is their main girlfriend, boyfriend, or lover.
Of course, the implication is that a person, a man or woman, can be in more than one romantic relationship at the same time.
Not only that become extremely expensive very quickly, but it can also be confusing.
I’ve been married for almost 20 years, and I still make mistakes.
Sometimes I’ll say something to my wife like, “Remember when we went to such and such a place?’
She’ll say, with a very cool voice, ‘No, I don’t. I’ve never been there. That must have been with somebody else!”
Ouch!
Naturally, my beautiful, sweet wife is my main squeeze, but that doesn’t mean I don’t put my foot in it once in a blue moon.
Now, you may be wondering where the term main squeeze comes from.
Well, it comes from hugging.
You usually give them a little squeeze when you hug someone, right?
There’s a difference between embracing a friend or acquaintance and how you hug your significant other, isn’t there?
So, just as there is the main, second, weekend, and my-husband-is-out-of-town-squeeze, and I’ll-tell-my-husband-I’m-working-late-squeeze, there are different levels of hug strength.
It just becomes so complicated.
Then you have to factor in the length of the hug, too.
A little too long, and the other person may get the wrong idea or the right one if that was your intention.
Stick with your main squeeze, and you’ll never be lonely.
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