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I Can’t Stop Bashing My Husband to Other Moms, and I’m Sorry
New York Magazine ^ | 6/17

Posted on 06/18/2016 11:57:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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generation wimp strikes again


101 posted on 06/18/2016 3:26:58 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: nickcarraway
This was discussed 52 years ago (at least) in a useful book called Games People Play.

When I was a pastor, I made a point of discussing it in pre-marital counseling. In the "traditional" marriage rites, each party pledges to "honor" the other. I teach that this is not only about an internal disposition, but about simple external acts.

Guys do this too. We get together and bitch about women and especially the woman we are married to. But this is, SIMPLY, a breach of the marriage vows. We promised to honor, yet we dishonor them.

I don't see how we can PROMISE or PLEDGE to love without seeing that mocking someone behind his or her back is not a violation. But "tradition" spells it out for us. ESPECIALLY when your spouse seems like a combination of Windows 1.0 and devil's spawn, you PROMISED, you GAVE YOUR UNCONDITIONAL WORD, to treat him/her with AT LEAST superficial respect.

Part of the corruption of this age is that in the name of sincerity and honesty or somesuch B.S., we hold our solemn commitments to be so light that a mere fit of passion RIGHTLY blows them away.

Guys do this almost as much as gals do.

102 posted on 06/18/2016 3:46:15 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
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To: nickcarraway

Just wow! I must have hit the jackpot. Mr. GG2 does everything for me. Anything I want he does it. I’m a princess. :-)


103 posted on 06/18/2016 3:52:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Mad Dawg

Thank you, Mad Dawg.


104 posted on 06/18/2016 3:57:46 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: USNBandit

I’d hit the cavewoman on the right.


105 posted on 06/18/2016 4:00:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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To: Lazamataz
I’d hit the cavewoman on the right.

So would Jackson Browne!

106 posted on 06/18/2016 4:03:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Treat your husband like a child and he will act like one. Pretty simple. Sooner or later, though, he will get tired of it and move on to a place where he can get a little respect.


107 posted on 06/18/2016 4:07:29 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: DesertRhino

I lived with someone special and she started “naked spaghetti night” as our little custom.

It was fun...but...cooking together with hot pans and whatnot is problematic. And sitting down naked on vinyl chairs to eat...echh.

Dessert was the upside. And I had something to look forward to if she called at work and asked if I felt like spaghetti. Well, yes ma’am. Just not the vinyl chairs. And I knew that at some time, some point, a particle of burning hot hamburger or sausage grease was going to nail my (uh-huh) like it had eyes.

Which she found hilarious.


108 posted on 06/18/2016 4:07:32 PM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Be shoemaker or shaft maker for thyself alone: imperfection for strangers earns curses." ODIN!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like Erma Bombeck on steroids...


109 posted on 06/18/2016 4:28:24 PM PDT by Stayfree
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To: Dilbert San Diego
being judged by subjective and sometimes shifting criteria by the women. The women set the criteria by which the men are to be judged. Then the women get pissed off when the men do not meet the standards set by the women

Sounds like an often repeated scenario in this household even though going through breast cancer treatment slowed it down for a few years...
110 posted on 06/18/2016 4:32:14 PM PDT by Stayfree
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To: Black Agnes

Is that really true. In my experience women seem to ignore anything negative said about a man, if they are considering him for romantic potential.


111 posted on 06/18/2016 4:37:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

But making him see more enticing, to your competition, is never ever a good idea.


112 posted on 06/18/2016 4:45:49 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: wastedyears

The feminists have programmed you well.


113 posted on 06/18/2016 4:46:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Women like this are why we men divorce.

Plain and simple.

(And it's worth every penny to get the hell away from them too!)

114 posted on 06/18/2016 4:47:51 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Tailback
If I were 23 years old right now I’d choose MGTOW.

I have no idea what MGTOW means, but here's what I tell my sons now that I'm going through a divorce after almost 30 years:

"If it flys, floats or f***s, rent it -- do NOT buy it!"

And that is how I'm going to live the rest of my life.

115 posted on 06/18/2016 4:52:24 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: nickcarraway

Lol


116 posted on 06/18/2016 4:58:01 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: usconservative; Tailback

MGOTW is a program to get men to serve the feminist agenda.


117 posted on 06/18/2016 5:00:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: gspurlock
This insanity is based on a key falsehood:
“Homemaking is a non-skilled job, not a career opportunity and any idiot could do it.”
But actually that is true, from a certain perspective. After all - unless they marry a man who is super competent in the kitchen and with the vacuum cleaner, etc - women set their own standards of what homemaking is.

Since homemaking is whatever mama does, and any idiot can shoot a hole in the barn and draw a bull’s eye wherever the bullet hit, from that POV any idiot can be a perfect homemaker.

My father-in-law told the story of the mining camp which did not have a cook who wanted the job. So by common consent, whoever complained about the food automatically became the new cook. One day the acting cook got sick to death of the job, and larded the food with a lot of extra salt. When the group sat down to dinner, the first one to take a bite of it said, “This food is too salty . . . and that’s just the way I like it!"

118 posted on 06/18/2016 5:18:22 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ok, I get that but what does the acronym MGOTW mean?


119 posted on 06/18/2016 5:22:00 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Men Going There Own Way


120 posted on 06/18/2016 5:28:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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