$138,000.00 Ladies! $138,000.00!!!!

[FutureChickenMan]

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No disrespect meant here...but...
If you're as good as husband and father as you claim to be, what does your wife have to forgive?

Em

Oh you know, stuff like not noticing the one red sock in the load of whites. Questioning the need for two kinds of bath soap (ones antibacteria and the other is for conditioning your skin, donchaknow?). Putting clothes that "don't match" on our son. Insiting on buying gas from one particular gas station over another.

You know, meaningless stuff like that. The big issues, we agree on 99.9% of the time so those are non-issue.

 

[chickenfanatic]

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Yes, yes, and yes, to most of what she said. One thing, too, that a lot of people seem to forget is NO marriage can be 50/50 or 100/100 every single day. There will be day it goes 90/10 or 20/80 or any ridiculous combination thereof. I have HORRIBLE PMS....try something awful to keep it under control but there are days I am an awful person....I don't even like me. Can't imagine how hubby puts up with me. There are days he is stressed and snaps at me for nothing. Same thing. It is all about give and take.....a marriage is not worth it unless both parties are getting something in return but that doesn't mean every day will be equal. I am certain the vast majority of the women on this thread who are being accused of "male bashing" would not trade their husband for the world....some might, but everyone needs to vent sometimes and if they really hated them, open forum would probably not be where they would choose to admit it.

e.t.a you are absolutey rite both of you true happiness is the one you love no matter why you love them and yes give and take is how it should be for sure. i had lots of past experience haha before i met my love"i'm 28 and am on wife3.0 hahaha" so i totally agree and applaud this thread also. i just wish to make it known for those that didnt get it on my part i was in nooooo way accusing anyone in reality of man bashing or anything of the sort. just joking and being light hearted. as has been said many times before u cannot judge emotion or meaning alot of times on a forum hahha.

 

[mangled]

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Kudos to your mother.

And congratualtions to your lucky wife.

Em

now I can say, "See? there are other women who use two different kinds of bath soap..."

 

[FutureChickenMan]

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Haha, nope not available. We'll be hitting our 12th anniversary this month and with our little guy at home and mom on limited workload (to avoid preterm labor), my family needs me.. plus I wouldn't trade them for anything, they mean the world to me. Although Ohio is tempting and all with Geuaga Lake, Kings Island and of course Cedar Point!! Woo!

Kids derseve the absolute best you can give them. We've had to make some pretty big sacrifices (for us) so that mom could stay home and raise the kids. This wasn't because I didn't want to stay home with the kids, I did, but because I had the higher paying job, it was pretty much a no-brainer, ya know?

Best of luck with school, it will be hard and you will want to give up, but if you do, not only are you quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your kids.

Cheers..

 

[FutureChickenMan]

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Kudos to your mother.

Em

now I can say, "See? there are other women who use two different kinds of bath soap..."

Haha, I know.. I never thought about it.. then one day when I asked, hey, why the blue soap and the pink soap? The answer: "the blue soap gets you clean and the pink soap washes away the soap scum feeling of the blue soap". Naturally skeptical I gave it a try. Dangit! She was right. LOL

 

[ginbart]

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Ohhh sounds sooo familiar. I call mine "Pork chop" He isn't good for anything but putting a dent in the couch cushion and loosing the remote! I can't even get him to mow the lawn. I am the maintenance guy and the house keeper as well as working a pt job. Altho i have no children i have chickens everywhere so i guess that could count? It's like living with AL bundy! LAst year we had a pipe burst on the outside of the house for the irrigation system and flooded the basement so bad we had to rip the carpet out and replace a wall in the laundryroom. I tried to call him on his cell that day to let him know what happened and he was at the bar drinking away turned off his cell because he figured i was calling to yell at him for not coming home after work. Ya think he could replace the pvc pipe so we could actually use the sprinklers on the lawn this year.... NO way! now our lawn looks like a dried up mess! upside to that is i don't have to spend 3 hours mowing every week now

Boy i feel like i am worth double that as well!

I mowed the lawn once on the riding lawn mower. I had short grass and tall grass. My DH won't let me mow anymore. I don't understand it. I love to mow the lawn.

And the pvc pipe:
Now see I’m a little tricky, I would see if I could get free estimates and put them on the table, when he ask, what’s this, I would say someone should be coming in about two weeks to fix it.

He would be working on it by days end because he wouldn't want to spend the money to get it fixed by someone else.

 

[ginbart]

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Do you know, we all love our husbands. We just sometimes need to vent because maybe we had a hard day and we're tired.

I would love to see the husbands get on here and complain about us ladys. Maybe we could fix some of the things we do wrong. But I don't know what that will be, we are almost perfect, no just kidding.

OH MY, I think I know what STHU means. Not nice.

 

[Their Other Mother]

So... I wasn't going to go there (on this thread I mean) but... being the opinionated person that I am and then Joebryant added his 2 cents so I had to jump in.

First of all, I could rip my hubby to pieces but then he could do the same right back at me. After all, I picked him, No shotgun wedding here and no arranged marriage either.
Suggested reading for all men: "Maximized Man" by Dr. Edwin L. Cole
Suggested reading for all women: "Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands" By Dr. Laura

It is NEVER a 50/50 deal. Usually 70/30 with the majority of responsibility flip flopping faster than a presidential campaign. Still we have our designated jobs around the house. For example: He Never does laundry. I never unplug a clogged toilet, clean up dog poop or barf.

 

[joebryant]

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Would you believe that the women teachers in the teachers' lounge used to throw things at me every evening when I told them they could go home and start their second shift.

 

[joebryant]

HONESTLY though, I wouldn't be a woman, but if I were, I wouldn't get married, but if I did, I wouldn't have kids. I could never do all that Anne does, and if I could, I wouldn't.