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"I love Netflix. It&amp;#039;s been Rex and my opportunity to introduce each other to shows we&amp;#039;d never watch on our own. Despite his &amp;quot;This isn&amp;#039;t my thing&amp;quot; protests, he became a die hard fan of The Sopranos quicker than you can say Bada Bing. Same thing with Six Feet Under. The show was so enticing on a character, plot and musical level, it didn&amp;#039;t matter that it revolved around a funeral home. The thoughts and conversations we always walked away due to death plots with brought amazing life and stories to our home. While I was shocked that Rex&amp;#039;s picks of American Pie made me laugh out loud (except the last one), some of his choices like Norbit and The Fantastic Four were about as pleasant as a root canal. Actually, a root canal would have been more enjoyable. At least I&amp;#039;d have antcipated the pain. Worse case, I could be shot full of more drugs and sleep like the dead until it was over. Kind of like our sex life. (Kidding! God, people, I&amp;#039;m not that bad.) With Rex&amp;#039;s pattern as of late, I was hesitant about his most recent pick, An Inconvenient Truth. I knew the content was important, but I was afraid this documentary, with its &amp;quot;save the earth&amp;quot; bent, would be presented in some sci-fi, over-hyped, make-me-feel-guilty-for-not-owning-a-hybrid-car kind of way. I&amp;#039;m informed, but not overly political. I hate being beaten over the head with extreme right and left wing viewpoints. Instead, Gore&amp;#039;s talent at speech delivery, straight facts, and intermixing of personal details left me wanting to do my part to prevent global warming in my own way. It didn&amp;#039;t feel like a political agenda. It felt like a calling to do something ethical. Dare I say, it felt morally correct? What worked about Gore&amp;#039;s message is the same thing that has also helped me in preserving my marriage: Don&amp;#039;t take things for granted. Take time out to enjoy the little things before they&amp;#039;re gone. Be ruled by your heart, not your pocket book. Remember how precious life is. Make choices that are the best for future generations, not just what seems easy now. Don&amp;#039;t rely on others to tell you what is best. Get prepared. Get educated. Get thinking. ACT.  During the credits, a song was featured that once again highlighted the parallels between saving the planet and saving our relationships. Like the world itself, our spouses can be our lives. They can be fertile ground for new discovery, ideas and amazing growth, or they can be dumping grounds for our toxic attitudes and careless actions. We can dispose of them, like crude gasses at unregulated refineries, or we can maintain them through care and conscious choices. We can take their negative points, like an old beer can, and crush them as disposable pieces of trash. Or we can recycle their less than flattering qualities into something more beautiful and long lasting. It&amp;#039;s all about choices. I&amp;#039;ll leave you with the words from the closing credits&amp;#039; song. Written and sung by Melissa Etheridge, it made me once again think about the earth, and about my marriage.  And as a child I danced like it was 1999 My dreams were wild The promise of this new world Would be mine Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth To listen to an inconvenient truth What&amp;#039;s your inconvenient truth? That making a partnership work is not as easy as you thought it would be? That you might have to go to group therapy or talk and moan and scream until you come to an understanding with your spouse again? That you&amp;#039;re not as happy with your job or your parenting style or... God forbid, yourself? You mean, you might be to blame for some of your misery? Now that&amp;#039;s an inconvenient truth indeed. I&amp;#039;ve been there, and like any inconvenient truth, I&amp;#039;ve found that once it&amp;#039;s faced, peace can exist again. Maybe not the Nobel Peace Prize kind of peace, but peace. Good luck. More information on global warming and steps you can take to prevent it are at Al Gore&amp;#039;s website. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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