Marriage and the Power of Divorce

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I really hear your pain, man. My wife does similar things. "Oh, you're going to be home for a few days? How about we do.....[fill in the blank]"

No, that will get done, but when I'm taking vacation days, you're not going to find things to fill them. I fill my own vacation days with my own activities. Often they include the family, but once in a very great while I want to do something that's just for me. It happens.
 
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Sometimes that's hard. Something you've both planned to work on for weeks or months, and there's the opportunity. She takes advantage of the opportunity and you say flat no, then you're the dick.
 
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Well yeah, if you've said you were going to do something and then don't that's on you. "My wife overloaded the fuck out of me with stuff to do," doesn't imply much previous volunteering, though.
 
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All my friends who constantly say the “happy wife happy life” trope seem miserable.
 
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Nester said:
All my friends who constantly say the “happy wife happy life” trope seem miserable.
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Well, you can't have a pissed off wife. However, making your wife happy at your own expense doesn't work either. The obvious solution is choose a wife where her happiness isn't contingent on burning yours.
 
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Noodleface said:
I'll complain for a minute. Haven't had a vacation for like a year because I switched jobs and all that stuff going on.

So I took one for this past week. My wife overloaded the fuck out of me with stuff to do. Some was awesome - like my idea to take my kid to the zoo (see parent thread ). But a lot wasn't. I had to dig a spot out of the yard and level it, which at 8'x12' took forever. Then she made me go to the beach twice despite an awful sunburn. Then she planned all these relative visits. And worse of all, didn't let me sleep in once (but she did). I got close to strangling my wife this week.

Everyday 8am to 9pm nonstop activities. She then complained the yard hadn't been mowed and the bathrooms hadn't been cleaned. Classic

Fuckin classic
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I don't work this hard on non-vacation days.
 
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With 2 young kids, going to work is pretty much always less demanding/stressful than staying at home.
 
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Protip: Take vacation days but don't tell the wife. Pretend you are going to work instead.
 
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Noodleface said:
Me neither. I dreamed of the office
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Warr said:
Protip: Take vacation days but don't tell the wife. Pretend you are going to work instead.
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This is pro advice. I never had to resort to this, but I had multiple friends who did and had success with this strategy. Just make sure none of your friends are snitches.
 
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My buddy would just come over to my place and play video games all day. Of course the marriage didn't end well regardless, but I think it was more from him shacking up with a land whale.
 
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Phazael said:
This is pro advice. I never had to resort to this, but I had multiple friends who did and had success with this strategy. Just make sure none of your friends are snitches.
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I think when I'm at that point, it's dead.

We did all this work for our shed install to get pushed out a full week, so it made it even worse.
 
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I do the vacation day thing once or twice a year. I just go play golf or do some activity on my own. It's not so much to get away from my wife but to get a break from the kids as well. I tend to do everything family oriented and not much for myself. It's nice to just have a peaceful quiet day where you don't have anything going on. decompressssss

lurkingdirk said:
And it's harder now in the era of cell phones and location information...
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If your significant other is tracking you by your phone's location, there's other problems going on lol. You can always disable those functions, at least on Android, not sure about Apple
 
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fred sanford said:
I do the vacation day thing once or twice a year. I just go play golf or do some activity on my own. It's not so much to get away from my wife but to get a break from the kids as well. I tend to do everything family oriented and not much for myself. It's nice to just have a peaceful quiet day where you don't have anything going on. decompressssss



If your significant other is tracking you by your phone's location, there's other problems going on lol. You can always disable those functions, at least on Android, not sure about Apple
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But you are being dishonest to your wife. Isn't it easier to just tell her you're taking a day off for a golf trip?
 
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fred sanford said:
I do the vacation day thing once or twice a year. I just go play golf or do some activity on my own. It's not so much to get away from my wife but to get a break from the kids as well. I tend to do everything family oriented and not much for myself. It's nice to just have a peaceful quiet day where you don't have anything going on. decompressssss



If your significant other is tracking you by your phone's location, there's other problems going on lol. You can always disable those functions, at least on Android, not sure about Apple
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Ya, I am finding with a 15 month old running around ripping shit off the walls screaming bloody murder I need a few evenings/lunches a week to go hit balls or hide out. I love the kid to death, and my wife is a saint for what she does but there are days where I'm sure I'm not cut out to be a parent. Feelsbadman
 
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