Thread: YOU understand, don't you?

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'm sure she'd agree with you... :-)

Gotta read between the lines

In short, you admit to the fact that SWMBO has half the money and every last bit of the "must be obeyed".

You agreed to that arrangement a long time ago so basically everything you ever wanted to be, or wanted, was smashed into a pulp and everything you have - she allows you.

Glad that's working out for you.

Yes, none of us would ever have any of those things in the bathroom...

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Originally Posted by onimaru55

Gotta read between the lines

Spoken like a true veteran married guy. There's still many things I doubt I'll ever understand about the fairer sex but on this one I'm crystal clear- They will absolutely, NEVER, EVER tell you directly what they need, want, mean, or object to. Reading between the lines is absolutely an essential survival skill. A few more observations from my own experience:
1. In fact, even when a couple weeks from now, you're being chastised for "not listening", odds are pretty good you won't have the first clue what her exact issue is and in my case at least. "Not Listening" is womanspeak for not hearing things that she never actually said. In Estrogen World, the fact that you can directly quote the entire conversation doesn't confirm even the fact that you were listening.
2. If you apply any logic to this it will drive you nuts and here's a free one that I took many years of beatings to figure out. Some of our worst arguements were me trying to apply logic to such discussions and prove that I was right. Most of the arguement was stupid stuff that really didn't matter but being a man of principle, it was just the principle that bothered me. My logic and rhetoric was absolutely air tight, in fact, had these been disagreements with a man, he would have tossed in the towel, apologized and offered to fetch me a few cold ones because he had been so wrong and I had clearly demonstrated my proper recollection of the incidednt. Women however, are not concerned with principles, logic or rhetoric. The wise married man knows You can be right or you can be happy My experience is that even if you're absolutely right , 99% of the time it either doesn't matter or she won't acknowledge your correctness so go with be happy.

3. Oddly enough, despite almost never admitting when you're right about something they are all too quick to acknowledge every single time you've been absolutely wrong. The times you tried to apply logic also are scored as times you were totally wrong. I still occassionally hear about stupids I pulled back in 1986. Apparently their disc space configuration is a little different than ours is too. I probably only remember about 10% of relatively important things that happened last week.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Spoken like a true veteran married guy.

LOL... Never been married & couldn't be more single but had my share of "Failure to c'mmunicate" issues in past relationships

...and then they ask you questions like "do you like my hair?", for which, as we know, there is NO right answer. The best thing you can do when asked that question is delay a reply by feigning a stroke or massive heart attack. And how come every SINGLE aftershave and balm and cream YOU choose makes you "smell like an old man" UNLESS she chose it, in which case she will tell you you smell very sexy, HOWEVER smelling sexy, as we all know, will NOT lead to the 'actual act'. In fact, it's pretty much impossible to know what DOES lead to the 'actual act', in my experience it's utterly random and unfathonable...The best we can do is, when it DOES happen, offer a prayer up to the Gods and lie back and think of Mother England...

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Spoken like a true veteran married guy. There's still many things I doubt I'll ever understand about the fairer sex but on this one I'm crystal clear- They will absolutely, NEVER, EVER tell you directly what they need, want, mean, or object to. Reading between the lines is absolutely an essential survival skill.

Wonderfully!

I drink to that.. Cheerio! LOL!

Sorry, guys, can't join in on this one. Mine actually supports my habit! She actually went to AOS and bought me a pewter shave mug and a puck of Sandalwood soap (still one of my favs). She loves touching my face after I shave and admiring the BBS.

......she was reading over my shoulder.............

I may have been told that once or twice.

You'd also think some weird, AD addled, razor sharpening odd ball lived here by looking through some of the other cupboards. And you'd be right!