| Author | Message | ||
     Strokizator |
As I was heading out the door this morning I had the following exchange with the wife. Her: Do you want to drive my car today? Me: Why, do you need my truck? You know, if you want to use the truck why don't you just say "I need to use the truck today so take my car to work". Why all this subterfuge and evasive questioning? Just come out and say what's on your mind. Her: Do you want to drive my car or not?  23 years and counting. And yeah, I drove her car in today. | ||
| 2kx1 |
Did she bring anything home for you in the truck? | ||
| Orman1649 |
I know the feeling. I also like asking a question then getting some answer that has little, if anything, to do with the question that I asked.... | ||
| Sifo |
Did it need gas?  | ||
| Mtjm2 |
Strokizator , Why , do you need my truck?and so on . After 23 years its not MY truck and HER car. It is shared property . Now don't ask to borrow HER ear rings . | ||
| Whistler |
Actual conversation - Wife: You never listen to me. Me: I'm sorry. What'd you say Honey? | ||
| Slaughter |
Two ex-wives for me now... Sunny has 2 ex-husbands. We've got our conversations pretty well dialled in when we need to talk. | ||
| 99savage |
43 Years now NEVER: * Been given a specific instruction ex. "Take out the garbage" or "Pick up your tools" or "Get off me you oaf!" - NEVER or * Had a direct question answered - NEVER | ||
| Buellitup |
....from a television show... Me: "Honey, you have to turn the lights out when you leave a room." Her: "You sound just like my father. You two are so similar. What is your deal?!" Me: "You mean to tell me you've been told this your entire life and you still don't get it?" | ||
| Blake |
I have you all beat. Michele tells me that she needs a new formal dress for a fancy party in DC next month. She's heading to Dallas to find one tomorrow. "Would you like to go with me" she asks. We laughed together. Then she said "well do you?" augmented with the puffy lipped little girl sad face. No lie. I'll let you know how Dallas is tomorrow. | ||
| Two_seasons |
Ain't "touching" this thread  | ||
| Xodot |
35 years in - and I just found out this year how easy life is if I answer every question she asks with an enthusiastic "Yes I do!!!!" The question does not matter - the answer is the important part. hehehe I've never been happier than now but sometimes I do forget and actually pause to think about the question. I'm not perfect yet apparently. | ||
| Sifo |
"Do you think these jeans make my butt look bit?" "Yes I do!!!!" That was the last we ever heard of Xodot!  | ||
| Jramsey |
Married life would be a lot less stressful if women would talk less and men would listen more. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
As I NEVER thought I would get married, and have spent most of my life avoiding it.... the engagement is on, and the wedding date is 12/21/12 - the appropriately symbolic end of the world. Indeed all my friends think that hell must have frozen over and the grand apocolypse is indeed near if I am getting married. ! But she is a great girl, takes no shiate, and is an impressive shot with pistol, rifle and sarcastic wit. An argument with a Ukrainian girl is more like chess than tennis - never come to the game with a racket and fuzzy balls. | ||
| Tailspining |
Me: "Do you want your ice cream in a cone or a bowl?" Wife: "Yes."  | ||
| Swampy |
My wife has been changing her own diaper by herself for some 50 years now, she don't need no help from a man...."why don't you big strapping boys move that fireplace upstairs for me." or instead of just turning the MAIN electrical switch off at the cottage at the end of the year she turns off all the circuit breakers, I'm thinking, well if you just turn off the main you won't be in danger of turning on the electric water heater when it is empty, just turn off the main....I'm thinking it is safer that way because when someone comes in in the dark of night to turn the lights on next spring they will turn on the main and the lights will come on and then they won't be flipping the water heater breaker on and burning out the water heater element when they are flipping all the breakers on trying to get the lights to come on. Believe it or not....that started a fight! But believe it or not, I'm not complaining, I'm just commenting, I absolutly love snuggling up against her and feeling that warm soft skin against me, and the way she smiles and her eyes sparkle when she is happy. I figure it is just that men and women are absolutly different, once the honeymoon wears off, the miscommunication is enevitable, and all male/female relationships are doomed to it. Just respect them, and what they do (she is a JD, CPA and quite the intelectual yet subject to the same weaknesses and strengths of any female), love them and never let them forget. And have a sharp wood chipper sitting in the back yard ready....incase all else fails.  | ||
| 86129squids |
Every time I email my hunny and ask her what she'd like to do for dinner, I get the answer, "itdonmatter"... been this way for over 5 years now. Got very used to it, and we still manage to eat a well-varied diet. Last week she gave me the same answer, then about 5-10 minutes later, another email- "actually, it would be a nice night for sgetti"... I nearly fell out from disbelief... Otherwise, after all this time, we get along great, mostly homebodies, homecookers, keepin it simple. I'll do the occasional idiot move, she'll do the occasional wackadoo move, everything's cool. She's been out of country all week, looking forward to Monday when she comes home. I'll have a big mess of "itdonmatter" waiting for dinner...  | ||
| Strokizator |
She's heading to Dallas to find one tomorrow. "Would you like to go with me" she asks. translation: "I need someone to hold my purse while I try on dresses". | ||
| Thumper74 |
I've been married for the longest three years of my life. I love my wife, but she's Irish. Something happened a few days ago, I actually won the 'argument' and her comment was 'Jackie, 800. James, 1. Good job.' I'll take what I can get... | ||
| Blake |
Stroki, Neat thing about holding the purse, lots of cute women seem compelled to flirt with me. I can handle that.  Already found two nice dresses. Nordstroms at North Park, right next to SMU, my alma mater. Great memories. | ||
| Etennuly |
Twenty four years + here, it seems more like 130, but that is just on my side. I have a question for you long timers. Does your wife start a conversation with you mid sentence - mid paragraph - mid story, as if she had already been speaking about the topic for five minutes? Oh damn.....I just realized maybe she had been already going on five minutes  . OR.....maybe she starts there to test me. No, she really does it, or our twenty year old son would not complain......OR maybe he..... .....oh shit. I am going to pay attention for the next week or so just to find out. | ||
| Court |
>>>Nordstroms at North Park, right next to SMU, There used to be some great places to eat right up Hillcrest just south of Lover's Lane. . . after you buy the dress you'd better take her to dinner . . .as long as you are behaving in a civil manner . . . make it look permanent.  She'll be fooled . . .but not for long. | ||
| Bads1 |
Blake post pics. I think seeing you in a womens formal dress store holding a purse would be.... well.....priceless (Message edited by bads1 on November 11, 2011) | ||
| 86129squids |
Vern, maybe it's like being an audio engineer, multitracking...  Blake, what Bads1 said...  | ||
| Harleyms |
I'm on marriage #2...this one's 4 years in. Every time she "asks a question while telling me to do something" I call her on it....it happens a lot less now. She actually said that she didn't even know that she did that until I started pointing it out and I believe her, we catch other people doing it and laugh about it now. | ||
| Blake |
Dress is on order. Gotta come back for the fitting in a week or two. Joy! Dinner will be at Chez Darrell. Sorry Bads-one and Squids, I was busy in the next stall over helping out some Victoria's Secret models with their zippers, then after that the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders wanted my opinion. Wouldn't you know it, I left my Camera in the purse! | ||
| Buellkowski |
"Would you like to >insert chore here< ?" translates to "Go do >insert chore here< !" I used to get bent about her "passive commands", but now I figure that she's just trying to sugar-coat her orders a little. Bless her Southern heart. | ||
| Team_ruthless |
For me it all started when I proposed to her. I told her "I spent my buell fund on this ring so after we get married you best buy me a buell" I ended up waiting nearly a year before she finally bought it for me! That's 12 months of my life I should have spent riding my buell that I will never get back. women. | ||
| Sifo |
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