[Red Badger]

Huh?......did you say something?.............okay.....later.......

[neodad]

Of course, I work in a family business with my mom and my wife. I don't get much done. Thank God for FR.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

my ex used to tell me I ignored her..or somethin like that..I wasn't really listenin..

[Tanniker Smith]

Study:Men Hard-Wired to Ignore Wives

Not true. I never ignore my wife. Well, not unless she mentions something about a headache.

[Mr. Jeeves]

When a man fails to help out around the house, his poor performance might be related to a subconscious tendency to resist doing anything his wife wants, a new study suggests.

Or maybe it's a "girl job" and she shouldn't be asking in the first place?

This "help out around the house" stuff is frequently a code phrase for passive-aggressive manipulative female behavior that has nothing to do with keeping the house clean and everything to do with her reassuring herself that she is still in control of the relationship.

But any scientist who came to that conclusion would have all 82 members of NOW camped outside his office door with pitchforks and torches. ;)

[dfwgator]

My wife says I always ignore her, at least I think that's what she says.

[ryan71]

I don't why men get this "slob" rap.

My buddies and I tend to be more organized and cleaner than the ladies we're with.

Maybe we don't have the right ladies? Perhaps.

[word_warrior_bob]

I knew it wasn't my fault.

Why else would it take so much effort to listen? It's unnatural.

[YellowRoseofTx]

Like I tell my daughters-in-law......"it's a man thing"

[guitfiddlist]

Then they were asked to discern words from jumbled letters on a computer screen while the names of the people they had mentioned were flashed subliminally. The names were flashed too quickly to be registered consciously.

Wow. Sounds like they used SCIENCE to prove this, with people in white lab coats even.

I'm sure this will be told over and over to inattentive husbands:

"You hear about that new study, where they proved that men ignore their wives......Well...did you?"

"Yeah, yeah, I mailed it this morning, what else is on?"

[ctdonath2]

More like he learned the hard way that, on the whole, no matter what he does he's wrong ... so why bother? Efforts consitently unappreciated will not be repeated for long ... much less followed up by greater efforts.

There's also the stuff he needs to do - and it's just as, and sometimes more so, important than whatever she's pushing for. Some stuff still needs doing, so at some point he must shut out the distractions and do it. Along with other "important stuff", this includes doing personally important (even if incomprehensible) sanity-retaining activities.

And sometimes the "reactance" (opposite behavior of what's asked) is done to draw attention to the fact that there's something wrong with the request. Verbalizing the objection didn't work, so maybe non-verbalizing will.

Perhaps they're just studying the symptom. Perhaps the question should be: why is she demanding so much that he stops being cooperative?

[doodad]

Yes dear.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Ignore who?? hmmmm

[Savage Beast]

My wife has an extremely high intelligence level (Phi Beta Kappa etc. et al.)--a blessing and a curse.

My favorite Uncle Jim told me to marry a beautiful woman. I did him one better; I figured that if you play your cards right you can get a wife who's beautiful AND smart AND everything else--AND who thinks you're wonderful! I was right.

"You fooled your mother, but you don't fool me!"--a typical remark. She's right. She's also smart enough to know she's got Heaven on Earth. Maybe she can see right through me like xray vision--but who cares? She knows she's married to The Superman!

[rusureitflies?]

And what the hell does "Have fun with," mean?
House work? Like repairing a screen door?
Hey, this should be followed by a warning:
BEWARE OF THE FEMALE EGGHEADS!

[Constitution Day]

Who can argue with science? Not this husband, I tell you!

I am e-mailing this to the Mrs., PRONTO.

[HEY4QDEMS]

It's nice to know that I'm apparently wired correctly.

[captjanaway]

Well..... this explains alot....... Now husbands across the country will have a new excuse on why we wives are being ignored...... :)

[Jonah Hex]

"I'm a man,
But I can change
If I have to...

I guess."

[walford]

I wonder how much this study cost? And yes, I recall my ex sometimes sounding to me like the adults on Peanuts cartoons.

Wuh-wuh-wuh!

Yes, dear?

Wah-woh-wah, wah-wah?

I don't know how that hand print got on the wall, dear.

Wah-woh-wah--wa-dah-waaaah!

I'll get right on it, dear [eventually].