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What if Romeo and Juliet had lived...


A hypothetical tale of regret.

They both live, get married and pump out 3 or 4 babies on an artist's income and live in poverty. Juliet grows increasingly hostile towards Romeo, she wishes he would stop dreaming, sniffing flowers, man up and get a real job to support his family. She is also sick and tired of him hanging around with his loutish, d***h**d, loser friends, which he seems to be doing a lot more of lately.

Romeo is sick of Juliet's whining; the baby fat she has gained has made her less sexually appealing...which doesn't really matter because they never have sex anyway. He wishes Juliet would go for a jog instead of sitting on her fat ass and complaining that they have no money and she's bored and sick of spending her days with 4 screaming kids and a bunch of housework in their s*** box rental. He thinks 'well instead of complaining, peel yourself off the couch and get a job, you fat, useless lump'.

Romeo has been avoiding his wife lately and spending more time with his mates reminiscing about the old days when they would roam the streets looking for skanks and gate crashing rich people's parties for some fiiiiiine p***y...the good ol' days.

Both Romeo and Juliet often think if they had their time over they would have done things a lot differently.

Juliet wishes she had of married the older, richer Paris; waited it out until he died and lived like an eccentric princess for the rest of her life instead of marrying this weak, ineffectual, whinny, ponce 'God why can't he be more of a man?'.

Romeo wishes he had of listened to his brain instead of his d**k and married a rich old bird, had her killed (because he probably could have gotten away with it), and lived like a shameless playboy, bedding every hot young 'fair maiden' in 'fair Verona' for the rest of his days.

Both of them sigh and think...ain't love grand?

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Haha, that was a hoot! I'm glad others found the humor in that... Although a couple apparently didn't quite get it. *shrugs* Oh well.

In all seriousness, your scenerio, no matter how humorously written, actually does sound like the likely way their lives would have turned out. Curiously, people are always pining for "happily ever after," making the way R&J turned out so devestating. "Happily ever after" is actually not promised, and surely not terribly common, but the mere possibility of it leaves most chasing after it. Most fans of R&J would never dare think how they'd likely have ended up if married for a long time, but that's the beauty of fantasizing about what could have been... It's always sunshine and roses!

However, your alternative is quite humorous and probably the truth! Well done.

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