Posted on 01/03/2022 11:46:20 AM PST by C19fan
had wanted, I thought, soapstone counters and a farmhouse sink. I had wanted an island and a breakfast nook and two narrow, vertical cabinets on either side of the stove; one could be for cutting boards and one could be for baking sheets. I followed a cabinetry company called Plain English on Instagram and screenshotted its pantries, which came in paint colors like Kipper and Boiled Egg. Plain English cost a fortune, but around a corner in the back of its New York showroom you could check out the budget version, called British Standard. But it cost a fortune too. I wished there was a budget British Standard. I wished there was a room behind that room, the cabinets getting flimsier and flimsier until a door opened and let me back into my own shitty American kitchen, just as it was.
My husband talked to the architect; my husband talked to the builder. And I kept paring the plans down, down, making them cheaper, making them simpler. I nixed the island and found a stainless-steel worktable at a restaurant-supply store online for $299. I started fantasizing about replacing the counters with two-by-fours on sawhorses and hanging the pots from nails on the wall. Slowly, I realized, I didn’t want this kitchen. Slowly, I realized, I didn’t want this life.
I didn’t want to renovate. I wanted to get divorced.
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Stepford Men bump. ⬆
After watching what a shit-show their mother turned out to be, neither of my two sons will ever get married. Both have said so and both cited her as being the reason why.
They saw what I put up with until the day I put her out the door and couldn't take her nonsense anymore.
Best thing I ever did.
My advice to any young man even thinking about getting married: don't do it.
Could be it wasn't the horrid wench at all.
I have attempted suicide two or three times after inadvertently re-subscribing to The Atlantic.
lol.
Guilty, he’s lucky to have gotten out alive.
Yep.
I’ve seen rats take better care of their kids.
LOL!
When I was a kid there were no other kids to hang out with so I ran with the Dobermans.
Close enough.
/raised by sofa wolves
Next tranny to be featured on game show jepordy.
Men marry women expecting them to stay the same.
Women marry men expecting to change them.
Feminism and no-fault divorce had such a destructive influence. My mother actually went to Mexico and got a divorce, that was back when you had to have a compelling reason in US courts to get one.
No-fault is straight from the bowels of hell. Even Reagan was fooled—it was signed into law under his governorship of California, as was abortion. He was influenced by the company he kept as a young actor.
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