You did a great job cleaning that toilet!
Ding! Ding! Ding!
*I* said this to my husband when I was interviewing for a six-figure a year position that required 42 weeks of travel annually. It was the job of a lifetime, and I wanted it BADLY!!!
What did Hubby say? "Who's going to clean the house and take care of the kids while you're gone?"
"You are," I replied. "I'll bring home the bacon and you stay home with the kids."
"But I'll never see you," he insisted, perturbed.
"Look, plenty of men do it," I reasoned. "My Dad worked away from home for 3 years, and my Mom did a great job raising us. You could be a Mr. Mom."
His tone quickly shifted to terse. "So, you're going to be sleeping in a different city every week, traveling for days on end?"
"Yes, Honey. Extensive traveling is part of the job, which is why it pays so much. Sometimes I'll be in a different cities during the week. Look, I already passed the screening interview and the personality profile. I'm half-way home. Think about it!"
"Absolutely not!" he roared. "You're my wife. You will sleep next to me at night! I'm not going to spend everyday worrying about what's happening to you in some distant city."
Some may look at the exchange above and think..he's jealous, or over-protective, or worried that I would cheat (of course, I never would, my husband is my love for all time). Me, I look at the above exchange and think...he still adores me after all these years.
P.S. I notified the company that I would not be pursuing the position. If my husband wouldn't support me in it, I didn't want it.
The rest are funny, but this one pisses me off. There is a real trend to accept lesbianism because of some bizarre perception that most men enjoy this perversion. I've met guys who like that stuff, but OTOH I've met faggots too. Me and most of my friends have only ever sought one woman at a time. Sorry - most guys are not perverts.
This is just another route to try and make homosexuality mainstream.
Hubby got disgusted with a game once, left and went to the barn to clean it (he was REALLY disgusted) his team pulled it out, and the coach announced his retirement. (Bama -- Auburn -- Gene Stallings.) He came back and didn't believe me when I told him what happened.
21. I'll be out painting the house.
Actually, I've painted the inside many times, and helped him paint the windows outside. Weekend before last I pressure cleaned the patio and the porch.
24. No, No, I'll take the car to have the oil changed.
Do it all the time.
28. You need your sleep ya big silly, now stop getting up for the night feedings.
I've let him sleep through from Saturday afternoon until Sunday morning, when he had promised to take me out for dinner after a short nap. He needed to sleep, so I let him.
The only attempts at defending against this site, and this anti-marriage movement in general, tend to be first-hand accounts. And we all know that first-hand tends to be unreliable statistically. AND, these first-hand stories I believe originate from 15 to 20 year long marriages, so in effect they are from the 'old-school' of marriage.
But as far as any statistics, patterns, societal observations actually supporting the idea that a man is better off coupled to one woman for the rest of his life, and is better off exposed to the potential liabilities that a marriage brings, I haven't heard any.
Not that I want anyone to try to talk me into marriage (it ain't happenin'), but somebody needs to at least try to put up a good fight...