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Marriage Problems of Real Women

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Stitches!! 1
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Tee C --- 11 years ago -

I just read this on Huffington Post (who copied it from Cafe Mom). Some are sad, but some really made me laugh :D. They're relationship issues that married women sent in:

1. Money, money, money. We can barely even talk about it in an objective, budget-discussing sense without getting all testy and defensive. So much emotional murk tied to money.

2. It's kind of cliche, but he leaves his things everywhere!

3. He never goes to our kids' school activities or plays.

4. Our marriage has three people -- me, my husband, and his mother.

5. Tempering our expectations of one another. Often we will "expect" the other person to do things in the way that we would have done it, be it showering the kids or acknowledging a birthday, or having dinner on the table after a particularly hard day. And when that doesn't happen, coming back from that disappointment is hard. But we set ourselves up for it a lot of the time because maybe the other person didn't realize you wanted things done in a certain way or maybe our expectations are unfair and unrealistic.

6. He doesn't want any more kids, but I want just one more.

7. I figured this out a little too late, but I don't think we are actually sexually compatible.

8. We don't spend enough alone time with each other. Between work, kids, and house stuff, I feel like I never see him.

9. He doesn't help enough around the house. It's like he thinks the dishes miraculously wash themselves. When I ask him to help out, he says that he's too tired. Like I'm not!

10. Too much time together. I have NO breathing room.

11. He never tells me what he is thinking. It's like talking to a stone wall sometimes.

12. He snores as loud as a freight train and won't do anything about it.

13. He is obsessed with sports. He even tried to miss our child's birthday party because of some playoff game. I'm like, what's more important here?

14. He doesn't respect my career goals as much as his own.

15. He spends way too much time at strip clubs.

16. He is Facebook friends with his ex-girlfriend. Sorry, but that's not okay.

17. We never go on dates anymore. It's just work, home, work, home. Where's the excitement in that?

18. He's never around. Sometimes I feel like a single mom.

19. We never have sex. Like ever. It's like we are roommates.

20. This may sound small, but it drives me nuts. He NEVER replaces the toilet paper roll. He will even open a package and use a new roll and just place it on the counter instead of in the holder. WHY???!!!

What's the biggest issue in your marriage? For me, it's when my husband acts like the dishwasher doesn't exist. Call me nuts, but if you have a dishwasher there is absolutely NO reason to have dishes piled in the sink. If you use a glass, bowl or cup just put it in the dishwasher and then add soap and run the dang thing when its full. Why--WHY--do you put your dishes in the sink, man? Ugh... He also loses my clothes. Don't ask me how, but he can look at my clothes and they disappear--and then he swears to the heavens he never saw them. Grrr. 

Silverkitten (Mod) --- 11 years ago -

:) Tee C you always make me laugh. My biggest issue is getting the kids wound up before bedtime. They in jammys, they have had a bath, teeth are brushed, they are calm and quiet. This IS NOT the time for the tickle monster! I have them all set to head off to bed in a quiet and orderly fasion, then he comes along behind them and starts to wrestle with them. Then they are hyper and don't want to sleep. For the love of my sanity play with them BEFORE bed time. 

toriT --- 11 years ago -

My husband loves that joke "Why do brides wear white on their wedding day? So the dishwasher will match the other appliances."
My big annoyance is that he gets upset at others for acting exactly like he does. If I ask him to do something, it's "sure I will" and then he maybe does it eventually, if I don't give up and do it myself. But when he asks me to do something and I don't jump to it right then he goes crazy. He disciplines our daughter for acting like a snot, when she's just mimicking him to a T.
#15 would be a big thing! That's a bit more serious than "he snores"! 

Stitches!! --- 11 years ago -

I have to agree with Silver kitten...Mine is getting the kids wound up before bed. He is not the disciplinarian and it has been tough for me to come to terms with. I am the one who the kids get mad at because I get onto them about things... 

janiedoer --- 11 years ago -

None really fits mine. There needs to be one that states: Never finishes what he starts. Prime example of what my husband does is he will put a load of laundry in the washer, not tell me and when I go to use it, that load smells! 

notsue --- 11 years ago -

Inability to deal with stress in an acceptable manor. 

Tee C --- 11 years ago -

My husband used to do the "buddy" act with our daughter. I basically told him that he was a coward, he was copping out, and he was being unfair to me. All kids can't stand their parents at some time or another (lol) so better to let them do it in small doses than have them really detest you when they're older because you HAD to discipline them. There is so much more to parenting than tickle fights and wrestling matches, lol. 

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