Congratulator: This your first marriage?
Me: Barring tragedy, it's my only marriage.
C: [Knowing chuckle] That's what we all say.
So how would you respond to someone who implies that your marriage is disposable? Besides kicking them in the nethers, which is my first impulse, or the equally socially unacceptable and office-innappropriate method of preaching about your beliefs on marriage and divorce and how once it's done you're pretty much stuck with each other, because you know you're not marrying the type of person who would ever provide you with Biblical grounds for divorce? I'm looking for something slightly more clever than my actual response, which was pretty much to stare in disbelief with a polite grin pasted in place and laugh in that fake way you do when something is absolutely not funny but you still feel obligated to pretend otherwise.
People make me sad.
