From the APA, a 1939 rating scale for spouses. (The rest of the chart, including that for men, is on Flickr now. I love the internets.) I get a 27. The boyfriend gets 45. I suspect this is because, in the absence of children, I can’t get many of the merits.
Well, either that or standards for good spouses have changed significantly in the last 70 years. I would suggest a few additional merits, especially for college students:
- Shows a genuine interest in $PARTNER’s computer or video games.
- Willing to share the last Red Bull with $PARTNER.
- Buys embarrassing things at the drugstore if $PARTNER can’t.
- Agrees with $PARTNER about abortion. (10)
- Is capable of sleeping in a single bed without elbowing $PARTNER in the face.
- Agrees with $PARTNER about postmodernism. (20)
- Does not mock $PARTNER’s major. Well, not excessively.
Agrees that postmodernism is a nebulous umbrella term that has no real meaning (anymore?)
10
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Will still throw it around in an ironic intellectual fashion while alternately intoning that obviously he actually knows what postmodernism is and professing complete ignorance of its meaning (with perennial smirk).
OR
Has kempt goatee.
50