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Your Own Personal Four-Word Bumper Sticker
Can we give you a phrase that sums up everything you need to know about life and love? We wish. An inspiring quote you'll want to tattoo over your heart? Yeah, keep lookin'. How about the abbreviated mantra that will prevent you from getting in your own way? Why, we have just the thing: "More spaghetti, less waffle." This was a certain husband's way of reminding himself that for many women, life is like spaghetti (all connected and tangled) and that for many men, life is like waffles (everything separate). So when his wife, who is definitely team spaghetti, grows frustrated with him, he tells himself "less waffle, more spaghetti." All it takes is seven syllables to go beyond simply listening to actually hearing what someone else is trying to say.