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10 Things The Princess Bride Taught Me About My Future Husband

Women: Marry a Westley. Men: Be a Westley.

Meghan Varner
Oct 03, 2016
Trinity Christian College
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10 Things The Princess Bride Taught Me About My Future Husband
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The Princess Bride has been an adored love story since 1973. Continually bringing tears, hope, and laughter, this movie (1987) has done it again by inspiring a list of desired traits in a future husband. Please review my list while I am in search of my own sweet Westley.

1. He should fight for me and never give up on me, despite the challenges we may face.

Prince Humperdinck: For the last time, surrender.

Westley: Death first!

2. He should have immeasurable faith in our love.

Westley: "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."

3. He should believe I have the best body and always respect it.

Westley: There is a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

4. He should speak highly of me and to me.

Miracle Max: Get back, witch.

Valerie: I'm not a witch, I'm your wife. But after what you just said, I'm not even sure I want to be that anymore.

5. He should be a glass half full kind of guy.

Buttercup: We'll never survive.

Westley: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

6. He should also be grounded and realistic.

Fezzik: You just shook your head... doesn't that make you happy?

Westley: My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men, and you think a little head-jiggle is supposed to make me happy?

7. He should have a sense of style.

Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?

Westley: Oh no, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.

8. He should understand that true love and romance are the greatest things... second to an MLT, of course.

Miracle Max: Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world - except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe.

9. He should love my kisses so much that nothing else matters.

The King: [after a tender kiss from Buttercup] What was that for?

Buttercup: Because you've always been so kind to me, and I'll never see you again, because I'm killing myself as soon as we reach the honeymoon suite.

The King: Won't that be nice? She kissed me! Ha!

10. He should want to serve me and make me happy.

Westley: As you wish.


So, thank you William Goldman for this wonderful story as well as giving us these 10 reminders of how a man should treat a woman.

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