Marriage and the Power of Divorce

Cad said:

In retrospect I should have realized that question would have been bait for those guys.

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I think you would be shocked at how progressive and equal my marriage is, we just don't pretend that we are somehow immune to basic biology and millions of years of inherited evolutionary behavior. I am guilty of plenty of male bullshit that my wife lets slide, because its not important and I can't stop myself from pulling a Larry David on certain things. For every time she bitches about something without wanting a solution, I obsess over directions or our internal house electronics. We have learned over time to tune out the bullshit and catch the important shit, but we didn't begin that way. It is possible to learn these things and condition yourself to tune them out, but it takes time.

Soygen said:

We run it at least once every day. We also cook almost every day, so there's a lot to clean.

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My wife likes to leave odd utensils and bowls from things she snacks on all over the fucking place and it drives me insane. So I started just running the dishwasher every morning and doing a general pickup and its been pretty cathartic for my OCD. I still have no fucking clue how she burns through a half dozen forks in a day and how spoons keep ending up in her car (I would think the noise of them rattling around might irritate her enough to bring them back in), but I have adapted to the situation. I got her back by adjusting the toilet seat so it wont stay up on its own, which annoys the shit out of her (LOL), but I am probably getting my balls busted when she figures out I did that eventually.

Yeah my house runs that shit at least once a day sometimes 2 times on the weekend if we skip a day. Having 2 teenage boys with all their cups, bowls, plates, shits infuriating at times, but such is life. Our tasks are split like this, she does laundry and bathrooms, and I do cooking and kitchen. Rest we both do, like vacuum and shit like that. We dont go crazy though, we keep it clean but not freak out OCD type shit. Then the house gets thoroughly cleaned when we have guests, lol.

Khane said:

Why would you adjust the toilet seat so it won't stay up on it's own? Do you just enjoy holding the thing while you pee? How is that getting back at your wife?

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Not sure if you have had a live in woman long enough to know this, but a lot of women insist on the lower sitting seat being down while the lid is up at all times so they can take a shit late at night in the dark. Its amazing how much the act of lifting a lid at 3am infuriates women. And I am a three point stance guy, so holding the lid up is a small price to pay for revenge.

Nothing pisses me off more than my brain going into dumb woman mode. Just random shit will sometimes stress me the fuck out for no reason at all. Biggest thing lately was we adopted a second cat recently and that night I was freaking the fuck out about it to the point I was up all night throwing up. Literally no reason at all for me to get that worked up over something that trivial and I realize how completely irrational it is during it but I can’t seem to will myself out of it. I’m thankful my fiancé is understanding with it and I try my best to keep him from getting sucked into my bullshit. It’s pretty annoying though.