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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: a wretched hive of scum and villainy
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If my wife asked me that same thing, i would just say no way and I would mean it. She would not ask tho, she knows better.
I don't know why but alot of couples I know have this thing going on where the husband has to do things the wife wants because that is good for the relationship, but she NEVER has to do things he wants to do, or even allow him to do the things he wants to do with his friends because that would be bad for the relationship. Not in my house.
Women and men are a lot alike in some ways, one is how much is enough to be satisfied. The average woman will never be completely satisfied no matter what. Give her everything, she will want a little more. give her nothing, she will want a little more.
I made it clear early in our relationship that I wasn't going to spend time with her firends. I was not gonig to spend time with her shopping at the mall. I wasn't gonig to step foot in bed, bath, and beyond. In return she doesn't have to help me work on the car. She doesn't have to watch anything on speed channel. She doesn't have to go to the pizza parlor and watch football with my friends and I.
I do what I like, she does what she likes, it works out well. Abouit the only things we regularly do together have to do with soccer and baseball games on the weekends, both of our kids play sports year-round.
Now some would say that you should find things to do together that you both like. BS.
Maybe 1 out of 100,000 couples might actually have hobbies that they do together that they both really like. Most do it because one of the people in the relationship just pretends to like something because they think that is the right thing to do. It isn't. Often that can lead to resentment because you are doing something for your spouse but it isn't reciprocal and you are not doing what you would really like to be doing.
Childish I agree, but human beings are emotional, irrational animals.
You can rise above it for a while, but it will always be there nagging at you.
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