When your girlfriend says, “I really like my new coat, but I kindof feel like I look like a cross between the Michelin Man and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man,” what you do not want to say is, “You look a little bit like a marshmallow.”
Back pedaling and saying “You’re cute and sweet like a marshmallow. Ummm… vanilla.” is not going to help you.
There are many pleasing comparisons out there. Marshmallows are not one of them.
You can thank me for this later.
One of the things that I don’t miss about being in a relationship – anything you say can and will be used against you. 😛
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I have to side with Kristian on this one. If you specifically ask him if you look like a marshmallow because you think the coat you have on makes you look like a marshmallow…isn’t he just agreeing with you by telling you that he thinks so too? Isn’t he just being honest? And who doesn’t prefer being in a relationship with someone you know will always be honest. That way, you never have to wonder. 😉
Ummm…. I never asked him IF I looked like a marshmallow. I said that I FELT like I looked like a marshmallow. In a tone that clearly said “please soothe me for I am feeling sad.” If he was going to be honest, the time to have done so would have been BEFORE I spent $150 on a new coat.
Wait…before I switch sides…not that I would ever take sides; did you say anything about feeling like you looked like a marshmallow BEFORE you bought the coat? Or did you tell him that you loved this coat and didn’t say anything about marshmallows until after you already owned it and got it home…prepared to wear it, say this morning, when it was 12 degrees? Or maybe you bought it online, which really is the root of half of these clothes problems in the first place because you can’t try them on.
Also, once you put a thought into our heads like that, we sometimes see what we didn’t see before. Not many guys would think to themselves, “wow…she looks like a marshmallow in that coat”. We don’t think that descriptively when in comes to clothes…at least I don’t. It would be more like, “Yeah, I don’t think it looks good on you and you shouldn’t get it”…unless you already owned it and then this just keeps going in a circle.
IN ANY CASE, in all seriousness, if you truly love the coat…whether or not it makes you look like a marshmallow, it doesn’t matter. Love the coat and don’t feel sad…if other people don’t like it, other people are usually wrong anyway and you’ll be warm. 🙂
Hoper, I’m sorry but it isn’t fair to grumble that Kristian agreed with you on the marshmallow comment. Besides, if it’s a puffy, warm, coat designed to keep you from freezing like a human popsicle, you have no business giving into the negative about your appearance. You’d have been better off quoting from Ghostbusters and doing a kick-ass (and totally accepting) imitation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man right before he wrecks New York.