I Wear The Pants In My Family!

[leacha]

15 years or so ago my wife learned to tell me what she wants. We were shopping and it was getting close to lunch.
ME. Are you hungry?
WIFE. Yes.
M. What do you feel like having?
W. I dont care. (I know how this will play out, driving from place to place till she decides)
M. OK. I pull into a strip club that advertises "lunch specials".
Lesson Learned!

 

[mso489]

I too am sometimes bewildered to find out I don't like something that I didn't know I didn't like. I guess caring that I do or don't like things, even if I may not recognize opinions attributed to me, is an expression of interest in how I feel about it. And one form of affection. But yes, it is sometimes tiring, and always confusing.
Sometimes, if I develop an actual opinion and pontificate on it, she gets weary of hearing it out and makes up her own mind, either agreeing or making her own choice.
Now and then I'll really come up with ideas and justifications, and sometimes I'll find things she really likes, and this pleases her for years to come.

 

[carver]

@mso: how many years on the counter ?

 

[warren]

In all humor, when I read the thread's heading my first thought was, it's so nice she lets you think that. :D

 

[indianafrank]

carver -

how many years on the counter ?

44
warren -

In all humor, when I read the thread's heading my first thought was, it's so nice she lets you think that. [:D]

I really do wear the pants in my family, regardless of how or what she thinks...UGH,yes dear I'm coming!

 

[mso489]

Like the old line: "I'll wear any damned thing I want to wear. Honey, what do I want to wear?"
carver, my wife and I have been married six years, together for ten, and go back to undergraduate school where we met when we were 19 years old, in 1966. We were born the same year. I was married to my late wife for almost 24 years. Both these women are intense and interesting people. Me, I don't know!

 

[robwoodall]

When my wife was alive she, like me, was a very strong-willed person. We learned early on that neither of us was good at compromises, but we were both excellent communicators.
We ended up dividing basically the whole world into "My responsibility" and "Your responsibility." Oddly, it turned out that most of the things one of us cared about, the other really and truly didn't give a damn about, and we happily ceded power in that area to the other.
She picked out my cloths, except for motorcycle gear. She made all the decisions for bedrooms, baths, where to eat and which movie to see. I was in charge of kitchen (wonderful woman, couldn't boil water!), Garage, and shop. She kept the cars clean, I kept the yard mowed.
There ended up being very few things left that we needed to even discuss, much less compromise on. Worked well for us.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My wife shops at approximately $180 an hour. I can estimate how much her leaving the house costs me by how long she is out. I don't wear pants anymore, just socks and sandals, and the neighbors have learned that it's useless to complain.

 

[blueeyedogre]

My wife told me I could wear anything I wanted for our wedding as long as it was a black suit.

 

[pappymac]

Been married for 41 years to a woman who buys me pipes. Don't know why you guys have problems.

 

[mso489]

pappymac, isn't that great? Some of my best pipes are gifts from my wife. I never would have owned a churchwarden (see avatar) or a Hungarian except for her, and also my largest pipe (a Johs apple) nor a Savinelli Opera bulldog, etc. She's telepathic on picking out tobaccos for me. Don't know how she does it.

 

[hextor]

Every time my wife tells me what shoes she should wear, I look like a deer staring straight into the headlights, both shoes look good on her, but when I finally make a decision, she will always pick the opposite, I get pretty mad, then confused and then I will laugh, women are complicated but beautiful nevertheless.

 

[carver]

@mso: I concur, you're not that intense nor interesting. :nana:

My wife shops at approximately $180 an hour. I can estimate how much her leaving the house costs me by how long she is out. I don't wear pants anymore, just socks and sandals, and the neighbors have learned that it's useless to complain.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[carver]

I'd love for my wife to buy me more pipes, but so far, she hasn't shown any interest in it. Neither in its favour nor in its disfavor. I can smoke next to her outside. I can smoke in my office if the window is open and the fan extracting the smoke. When I talk to her about a pipe/tobacco story she listens but rarely comments or asks questions.

. I was in charge of kitchen (wonderful woman, couldn't boil water!)

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