Do you know what an iPad widow is?
If not, then you are either: not married; don’t have an iPad or are not married to someone who does.
You see, my wife is an iPad widow. I got my “new girlfriend” as she calls her last August and she says that was the last time I looked her in the eyes and talked about, well, anything other than the iPad or something I discovered on the iPad.
To say it was love at first touch would be an understatement. 
I didn’t know how much I needed her, until her warm glow embraced my soul. Just to be clear I am speaking of my iPad at the moment. 
Suddenly all of these things that I never knew I needed, I can no longer live without. I use to tune in to SportsCenter for hours watching the score ticker, just to catch a glimpse of my favorite team (my teams are usually located in Miami, but that is a story for another day).
Now, my trusty little SportsCenter app keeps me up to date with gentle whispers of sweet nothings and scores, and all of the inside scoop a sports junky could ever hope for!
It is true joy.
“What are you doing right now?” my wife asks? “Umm, looking online for that restaurant we talked about last week ” I reply.
It is tough work to keep these two relationships going simultaneously, but they are worth it! I love my wife. And I looove my iPad.
When I travel, no more laptops are required, just my slim, light, sexy iPad that is the envy of all of those around, who don’t have such a hot companion.
Me and my iPad went on our first cruise together a few weeks back on the Celebrity Eclipse. It was a “working” cruise and unfortunately my wife and son couldn’t make the trip with me, but my iPad did and we had a grand time. I held her as we walked and made the other guests jealous. We listened to music together, we wrote love letters to my son and we even checked on the family at home. Isn’t she sweet?
And then we headed out to meet some of her family at the iLounge.
The first of its kind, the iLounge is an authorized Apple distributor right in the middle of this gorgeous ship. And guess what, just like at your local Apple store at home, it was crowded. It may have been the busiest place on the ship. And it was cool (not that I would have expected anything less). There were MacBooks, MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, iPods and of course iPads.
We were asking questions trying to trip them up and see if they really knew what they were talking about (we were in the middle of the ocean after all), but it was just like being at any Apple store, only better. We were in the middle of the ocean!
And we didn’t have to fight through the mall crowds and drive home. We just headed up on deck, grabbed a lounge chair, ordered the fruity frozen drink of the day and opened up the SportsCenter app.
Ahh, life was good. If only my wife could see how much fun we were having.
Before we knew it, we were back home with a bunch of new memories and friends. So we are sitting on the couch (me and my iPad) when I realize my wife has been talking to me and has just noticed that I haven’t heard a word she said as I was engrossed in the iPad.
“I hate that thing and wish I had never encouraged you to buy it!” she says exasperated. “She doesn’t mean it” I tell my girlfriend.
“It’s just tough being an iPad widow.”
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