Why do husbands make a woman crazy sometimes?!?!

Deb, glad things are better for you.

I understand so well how the fights can be. Cory would come and give me big hugs too.

But as I watched them turn into men, I really questioned myself to why I stayed with such an Ass.

And I still to this day , could just kick myself for not seeing it.

Where was Dr Phil when I needed to get real. Seems my boys grew up as I was trying to fix things with myself and their daddy.

Give another chance, Blah, Blah, Blah.  We did get counseling, twice. It just seemed to be a pattern that we couldn't stop.

Thank God I never had the drugs etc part of them growing up, and they had every reason you can think of to do that.

But I do see the reflection of us in them , and I have told them both that I was sorry. But I do see some of the damage we did.

I'm happy that the boys step father is a great example of what a man should be. (most of the time ) He is still a man! And men will always have male traits as long as they are men. Period!

Their brain does not work the same as ours, and that is a fact.

Remember I'm there on or off the boards my dear sister. You have my number.

Beth,

I think I have come up with a theory about the clothes hamper issue. My dh has started doing much of the laundry since my bone mets make it tough for me to do. He STILL can't hit the hamper and he and my boys drop their dirty clothes outside the laundry room on the floor instead of taking the extra 3 steps into the laundry room and tossing them in. I remember when we were first married and my husband would always put his dirties on TOP of the hamper lid instead of opening it and dropping them in. I bought a hamper without a lid and he began dropping the clothes NEXT to the hamper. So, they KNOW where the clothes SHOULD go...

I think they have a deep-seated and irrational fear that depositing their dirty clothes in a receptacle created for that purpose will cause their "peckers" to fall off...

Then, there would be no more "woo woo" dances, and we all know how important that is to them! LOL!!!

I love all the dear men in my life, but they certainly can be aggravating.

(((HUGS))) and giggles, y'all!

Diane 

i know someone whose husband used to start undressing when he'd walk in the door at night and drop his clothes along the way.  the way she cured him of this habit was she nailed his underwear to the kitchen floor, where they had been dropped.

Ahhhhhhh, Beth...but does he do the "woo woo" dance for you?  LOL!!!!

When we were first married, I chose laundry as my job because I didn't want to barbie-size my sweaters, etc. Poor dh. The very FIRST load of laundry he did after my mast (oh, he was SOOOOOOO proud!) contained lots of white socks and undies....and a very bright RED towel.  I don't mind the pink socks so much but my kids....LOL!  

DH is MUCH better at delgating than I am, too. He managed to get the oldest son to do nearly all of his own laundry and the middle son does much of the rest.  Their future wives'/so's whites are safe.

Now, how do you get a guy to quit thinking his farts are "accomplishments"? 

Farts.  Oh, yes.  I was at least 25 years old before I realized the word was spelled that way since I grew up in Rhode Island and the word there is pronounced "fots."

Tina

Oh my, just chiming in for the fart stories -- I had a bad tear delivering my 9 lb 3 oz dear son 24 years ago -- and my rectal anatomy is a little weird.  Fart sounds happen just from AIR being expelled when I exert myself in some way (lifting something heavy, including some exercises like back bridges where I'm "lifting" myself).  No longer possible to "hold it in."

And I must have some other chromosomal/hormonal abnormality, because I am a horrible slob.  I'm like PigPen, from the Peanuts comic strip.  I always got horrible marks on my grade school report kid for some category called "Keeps desk and materials neat."  A lot of boyfriends -- including ex-husband -- are at first charmed and relieved to meet "a girl who keeps house like a guy" -- but once it gets beyond visiting and comes to living together -- well, my ex couldn't take it -- and he wasn't really a whole lot better so it didn't seem fair that he was so "disgusted" by it...

I remember one particular argument where he was scolding me about slobbiness, picking up things of mine and saying "what's this? what's this?"  and I just picked up his pieces of trash and said the same thing -- our son laughed hysterically.  It was one of the "better" fights we had!

Once one of my sons jumped off my lap and went to the other side of the room, I said. Whats up? he said I had to fart mom. Cool!! thanks for not farting on me!

I remember when I first started dating DH, We were playing pool and had a nice glow on from some beers at a hockey game, then it just came out?? I said, Oh well, I am cute, deal with it!!

I farted once in front of a bunch of co-workers. Unplanned. It was hillarious. I was mortified. I survied and they all liked me.

Dh doesn't fart too much in front of me. But he has told me not to enter the bathroom, because he destroyed it!! LMAO.

J

OMG, I gave my dh a Vday card: Love means never having to say "oops, I farted and I'm sorry"!   LOL

He did get a sweet one, too, tho.

i have a fart story.  when my son was a toddler, every time my husband would fart, he would blame it on me.  one day i was at work and my husband was home with our son.  They were playing together and my husband farted...loudly.  My son jumped up and excitedly ran to the door and yelled "Mommy's home!"

oh...and hubby named the "phenomenon" of "my" farts coming from his direction as "ventrilofarts."