Posted on 02/02/2015 4:42:01 AM PST by servo1969
I'm sure that she could do it (if she could get the mower started, it pulls pretty hard) but if I can do it, I don't like to ask.
I run the chain saw and hedge clippers to trim back the bushes and trees, she does the flower gardens. She's got a much better eye for that sort of thing... I look at flowers and think "Pretty". She looks at them and says "Well, this color goes better with that, and this will look better when it grows in..." and so on.
Truly, as it sounds like with your husband, it's a complementary relationship. 'Tis why we work so well together. :-)
>>She brought up the “D” word, dropping hints that she knows other men find her attractive.<<
If that were my wife......I’d promptly hit the eject button!
LOL!
Yeah, as far as I’m concerned that word should never be brought up by a spouse unless divorce is precisely what he/she wants. Don’t even go there.
I cant believe how well it is written. Line after line of great dialogue that flows effortlessly. The characters seem very real.
bfl
These Super Bowl ads made this Dad cry (Toyota, Nissan and Unilever)
Most people who "boost the economy" aren't experts in economics. They're plumbers, or electricians, or engineers, or merchants, or ... neither a political science degree, nor a law degree, nor even an economics degree are particularly useful in these pursuits.
As it turned out, I missed the first quarter, and saw the rest of the game at an Oyster Bar - so I missed many commercials and could not hear the nuances in others.
Amazing there were multiple ads like this. Someone on Madison Avenue has wised up.
Actually, I don’t like the Dove Commercial really - it was pro dad, and it was fine - but it was all the squishy dad stuff (which is part of the gig) - but none of the real manly stuff (also part of the gig) - which is what I liked about Nissan and Toyota spots - CLEARLY taking aim at Subaru.
I tend to agree with you. If a woman is treating a man in a contemptuous way she has no respect for him and basically does not love/like him very much. Its just a bad match.
Same goes for men. A man who disrespects his wife does not love/like her.
I don’t buy into all this cultural psycho babble. Women are not that complicated. I are one. LOL!
“And one way women demean men is in advertising.....every white dude on a commercial is a dolt - unless he’s a feminized lib hipster type”
You nailed it. Not to mention the racial aspect of the commercials where the black guy is always depicted as the college intellectual......while the advertising world can’t find white guys for their commercials with beautiful white women.
“Also, this assault on men and maleness has really undermined the sense of self that boys have. Over the course of my teaching career, I saw an entirely different type of boy emerge, a boy greatly diminished by the constant “Girls can do anything” garbage.”
I’m 52 and have worked for a number of younger couples in my plumbing work.
I simply cannot believe how utterly emasculated many younger guys are and utterly useless with mechanical things. It’s almost as though they have been bred this way. I’ve met my share of guys that were simply not mechanically inclined in my generation. However, it didn’t take away from their masculinity. This is something entirely different now.
I do better dealing with the wives and girlfriends. They listen and are willing to understand what you are trying to tell them.
I guess I’m just old. LOL
Lowes....the black housewife and the white delivery dude with the washer dryer....Lowes...the black couple and the white guys carrying the old carpet out....Cadillac...the yuppie black couple and the white hotel porter.....
and on and on...you know, just like real life...
There’s a lot right about this article. There have been studies with vast numbers of people to document what men and women generally thought was most important in a relationship. For women it was “love;” for men, “respect” was at the top of the list. This should not be surprising, if we listen to the Creator’s message:
Eph 5:25 “Husbands, LOVE your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must RESPECT her husband.”
These are not “if he/she earns it first” commands. These are what each sex needs from each other at a basic level. It’s not enough for a man to “feel” love without showing it, just as it’s not enough for a woman to “love” a man they way she wants him to love her. Without respect in her tone and actions, publicly and privately, she is denying his manhood.
People who are oblivious to these fundamental imperatives have marriages that are already heading for the rocks, even if they don’t know it yet. I speak from experience. After 30+ years of marriage, we’ve just about figured this much out.
Truly, as it sounds like with your husband, it's a complementary relationship. 'Tis why we work so well together. :-)
Indeed! Once upon a time my husband complained that it made him feel like a horses arse because I insisted on mowing and doing the yard work. I just explained to him how much I love doing it and that I would be very disappointed if I wasn't able to do it. He's gotten over his worries. :) Come on springtime!!!
I’m not his mother—he lives with her, I’m his father.
And he’s going on 17 soon.
He’s pretty much from observation (divorce #1, my likely divorce #2) come to a M.G.T.O.W (Men Going Their Own Way) point of view. I’m merely trying to reinforce what he already knows.
He has no desire to be in my position: married to a 2nd wife with 2 kids who is going to move on to greener passages. This country favors wives whoring it up (like the current wife, who has cheated I-can’t-remember-how-many times—I should use a spreadsheet), divorcing, getting child support (in reality, tax free alimony), then getting a new man.
The studies that say that both spouses are worse off after a divorce... not true if the woman remarries or gets a sugar daddy and gets bucket loads of “child support” from the ex- sucker.
I’m sending in my passport renewal this week, with the end goal of possibly joining up with the Kurds to fight against ISIS, so that if the wife leaves, I can vote with my feet against the system.
Should the current “wife” decide to break up the family for greener pastures, I will take a few thousand in cash with me, body armor & carrier, boots, Russian scopes, etc, and leave nothing behind but debt. I figure I’ll fight for a few months, kill some ISIS terrorists, then eventually get killed.
This reminds me of an old 45 year old cartoon.
A man and woman walking down the street get held up by a thug with a gun. The man’s hands go into the air.
The wife slugs the crook with her purse very hard, and he drops his gun, and the man says..
“My God Ethel, Can’t I take you anywhere without you embarrassing me in public?”
Wow. Just when I think I’ve seen or read it all ....
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