OU Ariakas
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Marriage and the Power of Divorce
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Go home and do something nice for your wife to show her your appreciation for not having a snapping turtle infestation.
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Leadsalad
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She used a cheat code to get out of personal responsibility. Nothing has changed.
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Noodleface
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Once a month? I got kids, the place is destroyed 3 minutes after cleaning
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Me and the wife are going on 24 yrs now, married for almost 20 of them. And we went though some shit at about the 7-8 yr mark, but we came out the other end with a deeper appreciation for each other and Im glad we did. Our kids are almost there, one is about to be 18 and the other is 15, going to be freshman. I kind of lucked out with her because she has the same beliefs that I do, shares the same likes and were definitely best friends. Just like you above peeps, yeah, shes a slob but we manage to keep the house at about 80%- 85% clean and thats good enough for me and her. Usually we have family over for Christmas which makes us do a once a year thorough clean. During the week I take care of the kitchen and cooking shit, while she takes care of the laundry and other shit so it woks out. the kids do some of the shit now, like their bathroom every few weeks, vacuum and their rooms. The outside is usually me and the older kid and my wife does all the spring time planting of flowers and shit like that. The younger one likes the cooking stuff so hes helping me in there more and more and at the same time learning how to cook and shit.
The pool thing was great when kids were younger. We basically had a pool ever since the kids were really young, started with the Intex blow up 12-15"ft ones we put up every summer, then worked our way up to a more permanent 18Ft round that I got a good deal on on craigs-list brand new in box for $600 with filter. Put that bitch in myself too. Which had me digging the back yard with a big slope for the better of one spring to get a level spot. And yeah we used the shit out of it. It got our asses outside many a summer when if we did not have it we would just be inside int he AC. But now the kids are using it less and less at their age. Usually they get hyped for it at the beginning of summer and then it dies off where no one is using it by late July. So proabbly within the next few years were gonna take the bitch out. Its not really expensive, maybe $200-250 per year? But im tired of opening and closing plus maintaining the bitch if no one is using it anymore.
The pool thing was great when kids were younger. We basically had a pool ever since the kids were really young, started with the Intex blow up 12-15"ft ones we put up every summer, then worked our way up to a more permanent 18Ft round that I got a good deal on on craigs-list brand new in box for $600 with filter. Put that bitch in myself too. Which had me digging the back yard with a big slope for the better of one spring to get a level spot. And yeah we used the shit out of it. It got our asses outside many a summer when if we did not have it we would just be inside int he AC. But now the kids are using it less and less at their age. Usually they get hyped for it at the beginning of summer and then it dies off where no one is using it by late July. So proabbly within the next few years were gonna take the bitch out. Its not really expensive, maybe $200-250 per year? But im tired of opening and closing plus maintaining the bitch if no one is using it anymore.
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Asshole gets around because apparently hes fucking mine too!
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Crone
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Lol, fucking A you guys make me laugh.
This is exactly it for me. Not only do I not want to do anything around the house, but I also don't want to do any part of the cleaning either. The wife blames the kids, just like mentioned above, and it's true. Within a day of making the house spotless, the kids will have destroyed the whole thing. That's extremely frustrating, but can be overcome by taking a few minutes at the end of every day. Comes down to pure laziness. Wife will say that she knows she has to clean, and needs to clean, but the kids go down at night and she's so drained that she doesn't want to do a single thing except veg and watch TV. So hence it doesn't get done and the cycle repeats the next day.
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Alex
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I had a pool growing up and it was awesome. Huge ass inground pool. Like 18x30. Loved that shit as a kid. My house was always popular due to both that and having miles of woods directly behind the house. Like mkopec said, it mostly became less used as we got older (except for get togethers in high school when the parents were out of town), but I have very fond memories of that pool. My dad took exceptional care of it. Always sparkling and clear.
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Leadsalad
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What did she actually commit to changing?
She said you have a temper and appeared to end the discussion with you agreeing to be less angry and that’s it.
Cutlery
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Because she didn't do anything. And has no intention of doing anything.
She's telling you she's gonna do something, but zero effort will be made. Come back here in a week and see we're right.
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The things we asked of each other generally take more than a week to see real change. I'm not going to stop being a hothead overnight and the budget, since it is an average of at least 6 months, isn't going to start returning to normal numbers until after at least a few months of good behavior.
She agreed to address some of the points in the first paragraph of the below post. I have a list written out, but it's at home right now. It is long and I wouldn't expect anyone to improve themselves in such a drastic manner and time period, it's just not reasonable.
She's already agreed to cancel some of her subscription services and count her hobby purchases more accurately as fun money. The clothing stuff will just take time.
Let me be clear, my post earlier today was nowhere near the entirety of our discussion. Just the facet that pertained to Cutlery's post. The discussion was over 2 hours and would take a while to properly summarize. If all that happened was "u mad bro", well....I would be mad bro.
She agreed to address some of the points in the first paragraph of the below post. I have a list written out, but it's at home right now. It is long and I wouldn't expect anyone to improve themselves in such a drastic manner and time period, it's just not reasonable.
She's already agreed to cancel some of her subscription services and count her hobby purchases more accurately as fun money. The clothing stuff will just take time.
Let me be clear, my post earlier today was nowhere near the entirety of our discussion. Just the facet that pertained to Cutlery's post. The discussion was over 2 hours and would take a while to properly summarize. If all that happened was "u mad bro", well....I would be mad bro.
Soygen
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We grew up with one too, and I really hope I can do it for my daughter before she gets too old. We have a community pool at my townhouse, but nothing beats having your own private one.
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I had a girlfriend with a pool in high school.
Supervise your teenagers. Just sayin'.
Supervise your teenagers. Just sayin'.
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Khane
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How ya gonna watch 5 kids when you only have 2 eyes?!?
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The_Black_Log Foler
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The_Black_Log Foler
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Fuck it make it a giant coy pond. Make all your Asian neighbors jealous as fuck you got more 50x more coy than them.
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The_Black_Log Foler
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There's that ole Picasso that's been gone all these years. Keep it up amigo.
On the flip side. Last GF was so anal about cleaning I'd have to wipe the sink down after using so no water stains could be seen. What's worse? Semi slob or anal about cleaning?