The cure for the nags....
I dumped my last girlfriend prior to my wife because she was a nagger.
Mom didn’t approve of that kind of relationship ;o)
But seriously, she nagged me quite a bit so I dumped her after 8 months.
—Any naggers out there? Naggees?—
I did not know they allowed the “N” word on freerepublic.
Nagging is like an engine. Nag, nag, nag.... bitch...bbbbbitch.
this should be an entertaining thread.......
I’ve always preferred the term “hen-pecked” - it’s so much more descriptive.
A man can die quickly from a mortal wound, or slowly from a thousand small cuts...lol
I would have taken this as a racy invitation for sex, although the location would have puzzled me....
The cure for the nags....
I can't recall where Dr. Wetzler met my wife.
As far as the Post-It Note, I'd be fixing my own damn sandwich.
Nagging is, IMO, a symptom of a deeper conflict between men and women, and why women are more prone to it than men:
Men expect their wife to remain the same as when they married her. They complain that their wife “changed”.
Women expect to mold the randy young man they marry into the responsible and respectable gentleman they want him to be. They complain that their husband does not change.
Generally, the latter leads to more “nagging”, though it can be an issue with the former in the form of “why don’t we do ‘x’ any more” or “you need to go on a diet”.
I have to say if I leave a note in hubby’s lunch it is either he wanted me to remind him of something that he needed to stop and do on the way home or it was more a hurry home I’ve got plans......;)
A nagger in recovery, I guess. You could ask my husband. ;)
Another name for liberals....
Dr. Laura’s “The proper care and feeding of husbands” is muchore effective.
Give him all the sex he wants and he will remember to do stuff on his own.
Having said that my husband and I are both perfectionists, hard workers, and like a clean, organized life and house.
So he nags me. lol. As I am the let it roll off the back type person and in the moment hard worker around the house. He is a daily task guy around the house. I am more spontaneous but kick butt when I do my work. Thus he is often frustrated and naggy.
It takes two types of people to make a relationship though and sometimes I really appreciate his reminders because I am often distracted and space out and put off chores. In the end I really appreciate him. Between the two of us we enjoy life together, get to be ourselves, but also accomplish a lot. That is because we both bring out different philosophies and behaviors to the relationship. It balances itself out.
Mr. Mac Dougall was renovating the couple's Oak Ridge, N.J., kitchen, and his wife had been urging him to pick out the floor tiles. He felt he had plenty of time to do this task. She felt unheard.
“Any naggers out there?”
Of course, there are naggers here. We wouldn’t have to nag if you told us once in a while we were pretty. Would one little compliment once in a blue moon really hurt you, Responsibility2nd?! But NOOOOO, all you do is post and freep, post and freep. What about our feelings? Don’t we matter to YOU? Don’t you walk away from me when I’m talking to you! (sorry, R2nd... hubby is on a business trip and I have to keep up my skills!)
Major Naggee here! My husband nags me to death. So, I'm here to tell you it's not just women.
My husband even nags me because I don't nag.
He thinks I should follow the kids around and nag them until they do their chores. I just don't have that nagging gene. I give the kids a time I want their chores done, and leave them alone. They know they will be punished if it's not done.
I would ask him to do something or suggest something that we might think about for the future and he would just say, "mmhuh". Then he either would not do it or on something that I suggested we think about I would arrive home to find it done. Equally as annoying! Especially since he was so please with himself that I could not puncture his balloon. Which meant I was sometimes stuck with something that I didn't want to happen yet. "We needed to think about getting a new car" and I would arrive home to find he had gone out and bought one which meant that we now had three cars and a car payment.
The not doing things was simple I told him that I would ask him once, remind him twice and then I would either do it myself or have it done. After the first time I did that he started to explain to me why he didn't think the time was right to do something. That was all I wanted.
And I learned to be very careful to describe when I was thinking of doing something and what steps I thought were necessary before it was done. "I think we should buy another car when we have saved up the money and after we have sold the old one."
It worked. We are both much happier.
Women simply talk more than men do. I suspect this is cultural in that women talk about dang near everything under the sun of little importance, for example, the 256 colors in a box of Crayola crayons.
Women often speak without thinking. That is, they are often unrestrained in what they say.
Women often lecture. They tell their husbands “the way” to do things as if it is “the only” way to do something. Often their method is something they learned from their mother or sister or a female friend and rarely is it the bets way or the most efficient way to accomplish the task.
The lectures tend to be interminal and eternal. Rather than tell us what they intend to tell us, then tell us, and then tell us what they told us, women tend to make statement A, then statement B, then statement C and then repeat and repeat and repeat ad infinitum as if hearing the statements over and over and over again make the statements more true.
Most women could benefit from a nice cup of “Shut Up!”
What really suprises me is that whenever I tell my wife that she is naggging (which I do not do very often because I know the result of such a statement), she tell me over and over and over again she is not nagging, what nagging is, how she knows women who nag and she is not one of them (not realizing that not being as bad as some does not make one not a nagger), and that if I want to be nagged she will show me what nagging really is.
It’s no wonder so many men drink...for which they are very likely nagged.