News flash... Stupidity makes one miserable...
people change.
probably dumping their efficient, sympathetic, domestic but frumpy wives for them as well.
What kind of life is leaving 5:30 in the morning for work, getting home at 10:30? Sex?? He's lucky he is still walking.
This sounds like a guy who wants a trophy wife but can't get one.
been there .done that. not much worse than the toxic wife.
When I hear trophy wife usually think of the old fart marrying the sweet young thing.....So I agree, no sympathy here, they married the bimbo.
I will never forget Dr. Laura telling one of her callers that his children will always refer to her is the bimbo. When she protested Dr. Laura simply stated "Of course you are, smart women do not date married men."
Bookmarked. This is EXACTLY why I have chosen to remain single.
Around 1510 Luca Landucci, a small time Florentine apothecary, recorded on the death of his wife Salvestra that over 48 years of their marriage she had never once made him angry. Behold the miracle, and bare your head in front of it [Over the centuries his diary has been considered by historians as a generally trustworthy source, so Luca is not believed to be a fibber].
Strong argument for an air tight prenup. Nothing new here, you see these women around all the time. They have that air of vapidity around them constantly.
I've been single since the early 90's. Had a horrible marriage, a horrible wife too. I've not had the guts to try it again.
I think it was Ann Landers who said that you are the only person who can make you act like a carpet, or words to that effect.
In this case, the complaint has been raised against a situation that was allowed to develop over the course of years. They want instant solutions to problems like this?
They aren't going to find any. Solutions will also take years, re-education, altering both their expectations about themselves and about each other, and most of all a recognition that there *are* problems, *and* that they need to change.
Both people are the problem, and the problem is probably already overlapping and affecting their children in all sorts of bad ways.
For the husband to have married a workaholic woman would have been just as bad, just as many problems, if different ones.
They all need a major re-alignment of their stuff.
People change--and not for the better....
BTTT
bump
I do work for a good number of very wealthy people and there isn't one of them that is what this guy describes.
I'm actually horrified, rather than amused. At one point during my marriage, I found myself doing approximately 27 loads of laundry a week. The house wiring was bad, so I hung it all on clotheslines. The dryer would knock out all the power on one side of the house. I cooked enough food for a platoon, spent most of my time at the principal's office, discussing our son's behavior. I was discouraged from holding down a job. I did it anyway, but had to turn my paycheck over to him.
If these toxic wives actually knew how good they had it, maybe they'd pop in the kitchen and cook for their husbands and children. You know....like being a wife, not a leech.
Soon to be 26 years with my lovely bride, love of my life.
Oooh, what a lucky man I am.
Am I the only one who finds this story a little too contrived and hard to take seriously? Maybe I don't understand that it can be true because I have no way to relate to a woman who would act that way.
My brother has married a woman very much like this. Not quite as tyrannical, but just as snobbish.