My Life According to Barbie by Stacy McAnulty

Author:Stacy McAnulty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, humor, barbie
Publisher: Stacy McAnulty

Fear and anxiety are terrible for your mind,

but great for your metabolism.

Chapter 22

My Aunt Sheila and Uncle Edmond look like a couple who belong together. He’s a few inches taller, both are equally round in the waist, his hair is brown and cut short, her hair is also brown and always in a ponytail. Every time I see them, they are wearing jeans and some top with a sports team logo on it.

Now, my parents’ neighbors are a couple who could be poster children for opposites attract. She’s a thin, sophisticated, supermom who’s always wearing Ann Taylor. Their three kids are involved in sports, music, and their church, and she’s their coach, concert director, and youth group leader. Not to mention, she works full time in pharmaceutical sales. Meanwhile, her husband has long, graying hair and a beard, a pierced ear, and he wears his black leather jacket in summer and winter. He does odd jobs fixing motorcycles or landscaping. It doesn’t make sense to me. Both my aunt and uncle and my parents’ neighbors have been married for countless years and seem very happy. So what makes a relationship work?

In my first weeks as a Relationship Consultant with Prrfect Match, I set up a dozen different couples. All ended in disaster–one literally ended with the woman’s car upside down in a pond. I tried to pair up all of them based on their likes, dislikes, and hobbies. If they both liked tennis or Indian food or vacationing, I figured they’d like each other. Embarrassed over my failures, I turned to Lisa for some advice. She told me to get to know the clients. She sometimes talks to them for two or three hours during an interview. From there, it’s all instinct. I worry that maybe I don’t have that instinct but decide to give it a try.

On Tuesday, I met four new clients. I spent a few hours with each of them, learning not only about their likes and dislikes, careers, and hobbies but also about their goals, dreams, funny stories, childhoods, and deep thoughts.

One client revealed that he’d really like to leave his successful job as a financial consultant and go to cooking school. A woman divulged that she often wakes at two in the morning with an urge to do something drastic like drive to the beach to watch the sunrise. Another guy likes to go to the park and watch people, and then he follows them home. I called the police on that guy.

The point is, I didn’t get to know my clients by asking them, “What type of music do you listen to?” I got to know them by just letting them ramble.

On Wednesday morning as I type up my notes from yesterdays meetings, there’s a knock on my office door, and the receptionist pops her head in. “Your eleven o’clock is here.”

I tell her to send in my new client–Thelma Walker.

A second later, in walks a twenty-something, black-haired, Elvira type with a tight leather miniskirt, matching tank and three-inch heels.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.