Posted on 10/10/2008 12:18:48 PM PDT by reaganaut1
I sell books. 90% of my customers are women. They don’t just buy for themselves, they buy for the whole family.
My sister is married to an Army guy and she makes nearly all the finacial decisions. They don’t fight about money too much and when they do I gotta laugh it is usaully over something small not the huge purchases.
I save my clout for the big stuff. :)
...like whether to take out the trash or mow the lawn?
His kids (my two step-sons) are grown and married, so no kid decisions to make anymore. The only disagreement we ever had was that I’m a neat freak and he’s a bit of a pig, which I can deal with except in the bathroom, so we have separate bathrooms now. I got the master one, he gets the small one near his office :)
All he wants is a comfortable, peaceful home, and that’s my forte.
A man gets to choose who to make his wife. After that, most of the decisions are hers. :)
At their core, people are actually very simple.
Women want to feel appreciated, secure, and desired.
Shocker..men want the same thing.
The couples that actually give those things to each other (or at least work towards it everyday) live happily ever after. Those who don't...don't.
And yes, stress to your baby girl to wait until she's married. It's worth it.
I’ll have to be a nonconformist on this. I encourage my husband to make as many decisions as possible, because it wears me out having to be responsible for them all. I don’t mind doing the work, but I want him to take ownership the family’s on decisions bigger than, “Do I get 50 rolls of toilet paper or 100?”
For example, he took our 14-year-old son to the education consultant, and they decided together on our son’s 9th grade curriculum. I have no feelings about it - I just check the work. He asked me this morning if I wanted to meet for lunch today, and when I decided I did, I asked where he wanted to meet. He started listing options (as if I didn’t know) and I repeated, “Please tell me where to meet you.” It’s so much quicker than discussion every piddly little thing, and if I really care about a specific choice, I’ll say so immediately and in detail.
> You obviously have a true sense of your worth!
(big grin!) She even lets me be the Man of the House and wear the pants to prove it!
I like to wear a dress, myself.
But seriously, you’re an example of a real man who’s not afraid of women. It’s very attractive, in a strictly philosophical sense, of course. Pictures? ;-)
Then again, how would you tax something (like being the hand that rocks the cradle) that is priceless....
Well, especially in netmil’s case - homeschooling takes children out of their fascist indoctrination programs - they gotta hate that.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/TheVoyageOut/11/ENZ-Resources/Standard/5/mi
Very nice. I’d trust you to formulate a position on the Kyoto treaty, too :-). And your wife has lovely red hair!
We are very fortunate Stay-At-Home-PARENTS. We both work from home. Our twins have never been away from us except once when my husband was on the Warped Tour for 3 weeks. I run the entire household from paying bills to cooking and cleaning. He draws cool pictures all day and mows/weeds every other week. It’s a perfect situation!
later....
“If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody going to be happy.”
That’s funny! I sure needed a good chuckle to end this miserable week with.
She’s a concert pianist, and when we met it was one of those impossibly-romantic whirlwind romances that they make chick-flick movies out of...
It's our tenth anniversary today, too!
And, if you stop and think about it, completely true.
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