Posted on 12/20/2004 6:41:03 AM PST by kerouacbal
I am 26 years old and have been married for 2 years. I am having trouble growing up and I am driving my wife nuts. It has gotten to the point that my wife talks about divorce almost every day. I want to work this out more then I every wanted anything but I can't seem to do it or do it quick enough. I can't seem to remember consistently to do every day things like take out the garbage make sure all the doors are locked and the heat is off at night (there is a lot more but won't get into it all). I am posting this here to try to get some advise on how to help my self grow up and start to take care of my wife and son better like a husband should. My parents are dead and I don't have a close family member or friend to get advise from. Could someone please help me.
Buy her Dr. Laura's book!
Ah, old age!
If that's where you set the bar, you're just looking for a fight; and real men don't fight about the positioning of the toilet seat.
(The real reson they want it left down is this: If you leave it up, they might, absentmindedly, fall in when they try to sit down...possibly even injuring themselves...in fact, I would guess that 100% of the women who complain about the seat being left up have fallen into the toilet at some point in their lives. Now, as a man, I feel a certain desire for my woman to not fall in the toilet when she tries to use it, and as a result of this desire I always put the seat back down. I know. It's crazy, and I'm whipped.)
But I'll tell you one thing. When bedtime rolls around I'm usually rolling around too. Coincidence? You tell me.
It always amazes me how it's suppose to be nothing to take out the garbage, but reminding to take out the garbage is such a burden.
It's not like he's telling her "no, do it yourself."
This princess needs to face and angry peasant.
Are you familiar with the term "metaphor?"
Ah, the demeaning tactic. Right on schedule.
You're right. I should have known better than incorporating a metaphor as a restatement of the point with someone so pedantic he has to explain to me why women prefer the seat up.
I'd venture you are a fine example of what women are talking about with men who think with their Johnson. Apparently, as long as your willie gets wet, everything else is secondary.
hahaha...
Probably because the guy is so unrealistic.
Advise is the verb.........advice is the noun. You're looking
for the noun. I don't have any.
Now there's a helpful suggestion, but it's doubtful she'd be open to reading it.
What do you mean, demeaning? Being thought to be a member of the distinguished He Man Woman Haters Club is quite an honor. I understand it's a very exclusive bunch.
The thing about women and their disdain for men who think with their "Johnsons" is this: They usually don't mind this if they're the only woman your Johnson is ever thinking about. In fact, they rather like it.
But regarding your notion of me as "pedantic": You used an after-the-fact example of my pedanticity as a reason to have avoided posting the example that triggered it. And that just doesn't make any sense at all.
This has been quite an entertaining thread.
Hope the guy who needs the 'advise' can get off the 'net and start working on taking care of his wife and his marriage.
(Perhaps your reply is indicative of an even higher megalomania than I had suspected, and in more ways than one, as you have replied to a message posted to someone else.)
Now the next vocabulary word: sarcasm.
It's an appropriate response to presuming to tell me how I can use rhetorical devices.
Stop choking on the gnat, and look at the camel. As I said on an earlier post, why is it such a burden to ask him to put out the garbag, particularly when he isn't refusing to do it? And not turning the heat down?
Please!
Are you new around here? It's what freepers do.
His post was steeped in Biblical principles, and The Bible has been recognized by billions throughout history as a higher authority
True enough, but citing Biblical principles doesn't mean you're applying them correctly. Are you going to "turn the other cheek" to a moslem who believes his success at attacking you is proof of Allah's favor?
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