Posted on 12/31/2016 5:07:55 PM PST by MtnClimber
Although most couples have experienced a long and awkward period of silence after a row it is unlikely to compare to a husband and wife who have not spoken for two decades - but continue to live with each other. Otou Katayama, from Nara, southern Japan, continues to live with his three children and wife, Yumi, who perseveres in making conversation with him but has only ever received a nod or a grunt in response for 20 years. The Japanese couple's silence was revealed by their 18-year-old son Yoshiki, who wrote into a TV show asking them to fix the situation as he had never heard them have a conversation.
And sure enough, a meeting was arranged between them in the park where they had their first date, as their emotional children watched on. 'Somehow it's been a while since we talked.
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Ten years would have been plenty.
I can’t post what I wrote.
His name is “John.”
+1
My uncle didn’t speak to my aunt for longer than that.
He didn’t want to interrupt her.
He should have at least done dirty talk!
Wow, a man figured out how not to fight with his wife for 20 years!
Give that man a medal!
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“It’s using her to fulfill his own desires and for his own pleasure only.”
Apparently it wasn’t just his own desires and pleasure. He didn’t rape her. They’re BOTH very weird.
“It’s using her to fulfill his own desires and for his own pleasure only.
He’s one incredibly selfish and immature man and his wife enabled it.”
Now wait just one damn minute there!
How do you know it wasn’t the other way around?
Maybe SHE forced the issue and it was all for HER pleasure.
It’s not always the man who is the bad guy, ya know.
He’s one incredibly selfish and immature man and his wife enabled it.
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Some people would take that remark as a criticism. Others would consider it a compliment!
Good for them for working through it.
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And for not rushing to do it!
A guy comes home from work, plonks himself on the couch, flicks the TV remote and calls to his wife, “bring me a beer it’s about to start.” She brings him the beer.
Fifteen minutes later he shouts, “bring me another beer, it’s starting soon.” She grits her teeth, brings the beer and slams it on the table.
Twenty minutes later, “bring me a beer, it’s gonna start any minute.” She grabs the beer, storms over to him, “here’s your damn beer, you good-for-nothing, useless slob, I’ve been slaving in this house all day, you come in here put your feet up, not a word to me, you inconsiderate oaf, my mother was right, I should never have married you...”
The guy glances at his watch and say “yup, it’s started.”
Sounds like the book “Apple in the Attic”, by Mildred Jordan. It’s about a man who would not talk to his wife for their whole life. I haven’t read it for fifty years or so, but I think it was after he thought she tried to abort their child. It was a good read, as I remember it.
If the man is interested and the woman is not, she can still participate.
If the woman is interested and the man isn’t, ain’t nothing happening for anyone.
IF. That’s what happened
I once went for a month without saying a single word to my ex — I wasn’t upset with her; I was taught that it was very rude to interrupt someone. :=)
I’ll steal that.
noone can call him a quitter
If a man is alone in a forest, and his wife isn’t around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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