Tech Honeymoon

Honeymoon. To most, this is a sweet, sweet word. A glorious, uninterrupted time that two lovers spend together and unabashedly celebrate their love. A time set aside to worship one another in bliss and giddy adoration, spent away from family, friends, and most importantly, electronics. This is what my expectations were. My expectations, that is, before “we” were given an iPad as a wedding present. As I saw the pure joy on my soon-to-be husbands face, my heart dropped and my dreams went down the drain. My honeymoon was now to be invaded by a third party.

And it was. He had taken me aside and promised me that it would only be used on the plane, but we both knew that was a lie. It soon became a necessity to check his email daily and Twitter quickly took over our breakfast time. The argument came down to this, technology makes him happy, and why would I want to take sometime away from him that didn’t really affect me that much?

Oh fellow Gadget Widows, where were you when I needed you? I couldn’t give him a good reason, so I had no choice but to give in… And then he took advantage of it. (His trips to the wi-fi hot spot increased to twice a day) But something else changed too, my attitude. Is the honeymoon too soon for learning valuable marriage lessons? I sure hope not, because I learned a big one: Compromise, compromise, compromise.

Was it wrong for me to expect my new hubby, a computer engineer who can barely separate from his iPhone for a day, to give it up technology for a whole week? So I made adjustments. Instead of staying in the room while he went to check his email, I went with him and we checked out pictures people posted of our wedding. We also scanned the iTunes store for games that we could play together . . . and some for in the bedroom ;). So for all my fellow Gadget Widows, here is my piece of advice: Instead of always trying to get your significant other to put down their iPhone, iPad, laptop, Xbox, Playstation, Wii, etc., why not see how you can fit into their world. It may be more fun than what you expect.

Two Epic Events: Price Drop and iPad Launch

You've probably heard. If you're a true Gadget Widow, you've *definitely* heard. Now our "I'm Multi-Touch Too" shirt is only 10 BUCKS. Oh, and the iPad comes out tomorrow. Hope you have lots of Real Housewives queued up in the Tivo like we do.

Announcing our "I'm Multi-Touch Too" Holiday Giveaway!

So while sipping some first-of-the-season glasses of egg nog last weekend, we started talking about how we could get into the Holiday spirit with Gadget Widows. After a few minutes of conspiring by the imaginary fireplace, here's what we came up with: A Huge Holiday Giveaway!

Starting today, we will be giving away one "I'm Multi-Touch Too" shirt everyday until Christmas!

To enter:

Follow @gadgetwidows and tweet this.

One tweet enters you for the whole giveaway, but you can re-enter once a day to increase your chances!

Winners will be announced the following day via @gadgetwidows.

Happy Holidays!

WELCOME TO OUR BRAND NEW SITE!

Hi everyone! We are the Gadget Widows, a couple of girls (@stephwunder and @sweetielamb) who wish our guys were as obsessed with us as they are with their gadgets. When we are frustrated, we tweet about it. So you should tweet at us and we can all be lonely and abandoned together. Like group therapy.

OH BTW...

We are super excited to announce our first official Gadget Widows shirt! We came up with the idea a few weeks ago at LessConf, while our guys were nerding it up. Everyone loved the idea, so we put our noses to the grindstone and greased our elbows, and they're available RIGHT NOW.

ABOUT THE SHIRT

We put a lot of love into this shirt. We think it is worthy of expressing that unspoken plea of Gadget Widows everywhere. We made sure it was bold, but also soft, and feminine, and playful. And it is screen-printed on the finest women's t-shirt in the land, the American Apparel Fine Jersey Short Sleeve Tee.