After reading this thread I have learned that women are either great or completely nuts. I gotta say I'm kinda worried that there are few tell-tale signs that reveal themselves before you're living together. Time to make a fake identity along with all the papers just in case of such an emergency.
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When spouses attack
- Thread starter ModulusFan
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Cheeewiz, you're stealing my lines! lol
I heard a good one on the radio the other day.....
(Person 1) So, how long have you been married?
(Person 2) Long enough I no longer look both ways before I cross the road.
I heard a good one on the radio the other day.....
(Person 1) So, how long have you been married?
(Person 2) Long enough I no longer look both ways before I cross the road.
cheezewiz said:
YES!! Credit to ya Mr. Tim Cole for not self-combusting from the whole situation. Hang in there... I guess...
Today on the radio:
Guy walks into a bar and says to the bartender: "Pour me a cold one. Me and the wife just got into a fight."
Bartender says: "Oh? How did this one finish up?"
Guy: "She came crawling on her hands and knees."
bartender: "Did she say anything?"
guy: "Yeah. She said 'Get out from under that bed you chickens***!"
Guy walks into a bar and says to the bartender: "Pour me a cold one. Me and the wife just got into a fight."
Bartender says: "Oh? How did this one finish up?"
Guy: "She came crawling on her hands and knees."
bartender: "Did she say anything?"
guy: "Yeah. She said 'Get out from under that bed you chickens***!"
Allright, I'm coming up on my 25th, so I have some street
cred here.
I have been to counseling 3 times, it does work. There are
times when you need a referee so it doesn't spiral down
into anger and rage, and stuff can get resolved. Being
married is not easy, and a difficult marriage is often doomed.
It is a *lot* of work.
That being said, here is one of the things that happened to
me years ago. I had a catchall drawer, one big drawer that I
put all my crap into. One day I find out she has been in there,
and 'cleaned it out'. At this point I went ballistic, 'its not your
stuff, why did you touch it?'. I lost a lot of good mementos
and souvenirs. The one that really hurt me was the packet
of concert tickets I had saved, I saved every stub of every
concert I had been to. Nice to know the date of that one
as the years go by ... I haven't gotten over it, but have
come to grips with it.
I have a worktable. Anything she doesn't like somehow gets dumped there. I don't complain, at least it didn't go out.
I have her trained to leave my stuff alone, finally, but it
took some doing.
No it wasn't right for her to get rid of your stuff, but
freaking out over it, ( like I did ), just made her defensive
and argumentative.
Maybe you can say, let's make a deal, I won't throw out
any of your stuff without speaking to you about it, and
you don't throw out any of my stuff without speaking to me about it, isn't that fair? Great! Let's leave it at that,
case closed. Then you have an agreement to fall back on
for the future.
Hope the job works out.
And for the guy whose 'girlfriend' wants to control his
phone, I would have bailed on her about as long after as
it took me to pack my meager stuff. She's not married to
you, and already she wants you to get rid of your basses?
You cave to that and you are screwed. There are plenty of
nice girls out there, some will even give you enough space to
actually breathe air. Bail and keep looking, you will be a lot happier in the long run.
( This should have been in the 'Ask Buddman column' on
board X. where ombudsman would have said, break her
jaw, she is not comprehensive enough ...
)
cred here.
I have been to counseling 3 times, it does work. There are
times when you need a referee so it doesn't spiral down
into anger and rage, and stuff can get resolved. Being
married is not easy, and a difficult marriage is often doomed.
It is a *lot* of work.
That being said, here is one of the things that happened to
me years ago. I had a catchall drawer, one big drawer that I
put all my crap into. One day I find out she has been in there,
and 'cleaned it out'. At this point I went ballistic, 'its not your
stuff, why did you touch it?'. I lost a lot of good mementos
and souvenirs. The one that really hurt me was the packet
of concert tickets I had saved, I saved every stub of every
concert I had been to. Nice to know the date of that one
as the years go by ... I haven't gotten over it, but have
come to grips with it.
I have a worktable. Anything she doesn't like somehow gets dumped there. I don't complain, at least it didn't go out.
I have her trained to leave my stuff alone, finally, but it
took some doing.
No it wasn't right for her to get rid of your stuff, but
freaking out over it, ( like I did ), just made her defensive
and argumentative.
Maybe you can say, let's make a deal, I won't throw out
any of your stuff without speaking to you about it, and
you don't throw out any of my stuff without speaking to me about it, isn't that fair? Great! Let's leave it at that,
case closed. Then you have an agreement to fall back on
for the future.
Hope the job works out.
And for the guy whose 'girlfriend' wants to control his
phone, I would have bailed on her about as long after as
it took me to pack my meager stuff. She's not married to
you, and already she wants you to get rid of your basses?
You cave to that and you are screwed. There are plenty of
nice girls out there, some will even give you enough space to
actually breathe air. Bail and keep looking, you will be a lot happier in the long run.
( This should have been in the 'Ask Buddman column' on
board X. where ombudsman would have said, break her
jaw, she is not comprehensive enough ...
)
Thats why I got divorced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I did get married again (sucker)
Jezz just imagine the crap you would get if you got rid of her shoes!!!!!
Thats it!!!!! Give all her shoes to the Salvation Army, boy will she be pissed!!!!!!
But I did get married again (sucker)
Jezz just imagine the crap you would get if you got rid of her shoes!!!!!
Thats it!!!!! Give all her shoes to the Salvation Army, boy will she be pissed!!!!!!
MAJOR METAL said:
Eh, I could make a really poor joke about the smell, but wont.
I STILL have not gone to bed yet, and she STILL has not gotten out of it. Oh well, couch time coming soon.
Tim Cole said:
Homer: "Ah the few sweet moments before I remember why I'm sleeping on the lawn..."
srry 
Whatever crap ever goes down in life, there's always music. You pick up an instrument and all the notes fit together the same way they did before whatever it was happened.
Mike Money
In Memoriam
So like... I've just been informed she is now messing with his mower.
Remember dude, she has a hot young sister!
Remember dude, she has a hot young sister!
I'm not sure about some of these other guys but I for one give you credit Tim. You're stuck in what appears to be a pretty tough situation right now jobwise, musically and familywise and you're at least doing your best to pull one thing at a time out of the ****storm, like the CDL, that was a really smart and productive thing to do and it shows initiative. I wish I had guys like you working where I work, everyone there is just lazy and bitches all the time but doesn't do squat about it.
And I think Thor's advice is very sound, he obviously has been there and brings some good points. I'm not married but I learned a long time ago the value of simply going to sleep when I got angry, I'm Irish and have the quintessential Irish temper and when I get mad I've been known to punch holes in walls, wood, punch fire doors and other such items.... Because when we're angry and we snap the other person gets scared and defensive and refuses to admit they screwed up which just makes us angrier. I know, in a small way, what you're going through and I wish you the best brother. You need all the support you can get and chanting "divorce" isn't the answer. You're in a tough spot and you need to think it all through with her before you do something rash even if divorce is the eventual result.
I've always found when I was at my worst my basses took all the punishment I could give them and I always felt better and it didn't hurt me or anyone else... maybe turn to your old friend the Flea bass and give it a slap or five. Good luck Tim, you seem like a good man with a good head on your shoulders and life's got you by the balls right now. IT WILL GET BETTER, IT ALWAYS DOES.
Nick Ralph
Sorry for the preaching....
And I think Thor's advice is very sound, he obviously has been there and brings some good points. I'm not married but I learned a long time ago the value of simply going to sleep when I got angry, I'm Irish and have the quintessential Irish temper and when I get mad I've been known to punch holes in walls, wood, punch fire doors and other such items.... Because when we're angry and we snap the other person gets scared and defensive and refuses to admit they screwed up which just makes us angrier. I know, in a small way, what you're going through and I wish you the best brother. You need all the support you can get and chanting "divorce" isn't the answer. You're in a tough spot and you need to think it all through with her before you do something rash even if divorce is the eventual result.
I've always found when I was at my worst my basses took all the punishment I could give them and I always felt better and it didn't hurt me or anyone else... maybe turn to your old friend the Flea bass and give it a slap or five. Good luck Tim, you seem like a good man with a good head on your shoulders and life's got you by the balls right now. IT WILL GET BETTER, IT ALWAYS DOES.
Nick Ralph
Sorry for the preaching....
Ralphdaddy said:
Damn, thanks so much for the kind words, I am humbled lol.
Yeah, this whole deal pissed me off, but what can you do? I didn't think it was that HUGE of a deal, just something that really pissed me off, and felt a bit disrespected from the wife.
I don't know for sure what it is with her, she has a history of brief insanity once in a while. It has been quite some time since it has happened, but if this was one of those cases, it was a minor one relatively speaking. I've spoken to her several times about going to the doc about it, but she refuses. In a couple of the "episodes", she had anxiety attacks and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. The second time, she did get some medication, but stopped taking it after a week or so.
Looking back on this ordeal now, I think it was one of her 2-3 day mood swings from hell. She is a VERY active person, and spent about 20 hours in bed sleeping. Again, compared to some of the episodes in the past, if this was indeed one, it was minor in comparison to some others. It hasn't really happened in a year, since we got married and she went off the birth control. Hell I don't know, she could have gone back on it, and not even discussed or told me, that would be par for the course.
Anyway, for no apparent reason she is back to "normal", it's a beautiful day outside, so moods are good on my part.
