Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: child of wonder
My wife has a cold. Last night we watched some TV downstairs together. After a bit she decided to call it a night early. I had some work to do from home for my job so I told her I'd be up in a couple hours.
As she got up to leave she asks me if I can come upstairs and help her set up the humidifier in our room to help clear her sinuses.
"Help?" I asked. "What do you want help with? It just needs to be filled with water."
"Then can you just do it for me? I'm going to go to the bathroom."
"OK," I say. "I'll be up in a few minutes."
5 minutes go by and I head upstairs to find her filling it up herself. I take it away from her and say I was going to do it. Now she's mad.
Fast forward to this morning. I still have a lot of work to do and have to go into work this afternoon to move some servers. We also need to mow the lawn. Earlier in the week she volunteered to do it herself which is a big help so I can get my work done.
"Will you help me move the sprinklers?" she asks.
We have a temporary irrigation system set up since we had the lawn seeded. It's just a network of rainbird sprinklers connected with garden hoses. To move one, they simply need to be lifted up and carried somewhere else.
"When I mowed the yard last time I didn't need any help moving them," I said.
"Whatever. Fine. I'll just move them."
"I don't understand why you need help to move them. It's really simple. As you mow and come up to one, just pick it up and move it."
Again, she is peeved.
Why do women ask for help for the smallest little things? My wife does this frequently.
Are they really that incapable or do they just like seeing us jump through hoops?
Last night my wife comes home from the grocery store, she comes in the house and I say to my son, "Mom's home." She walks in with a few bags of groceries and a toner cartridge for our printer and immediately gives shit about not helping her and that her arms are full. I said, well how would I know that you needed help? You didn't ask for help, I'm not a mind reader...hell, I didn't even know you were home until I heard the door to the garage shut. :roll:
Then you power-bombed her into a cactus....right?
:laugh: Now how would that look in front of our son?
Originally posted by: chusteczka
She wants your time and attention. It seems that she feels she is not getting enough of your attention.
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
My mom will actually refuse help when you ask for it and then get pissed off when you don't do anything. Girls don't make sense.
Originally posted by: secretanchitman
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
My mom will actually refuse help when you ask for it and then get pissed off when you don't do anything. Girls don't make sense.
my mom does the exact same thing. that fucking pisses me off. i REALLY hate when she does that.
Originally posted by: HaiBiss
Originally posted by: Captante
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Dude, reading your post the answer's pretty obvious.....I kinda sorta can't believe you don't get it......
Man, was I this thick with all of my ex's??
Anyway, she just wanted you to take care of her, pamper her, make her feel better, or feel like you'd do whatever to get her through it.
She wasn't mad per se that she had to do these things herself, just that you didn't get the subtle hint that she'd love it if you did it for her. Women aren't direct creatures like us men.
Now, a cold is no big deal to you or I, but to most (most, not all) women it's an excuse to age back a notch or two emotionally and have someone tend to them like their mommy or daddy did. Do I think it's a good idea, no. But if it makes her happy, which in turn keeps life kosher for you, then is moving sprinklers and filling humidifiers such a big thing to ask?
Ask her if I'm wrong, I'll bet I'm not.
And we have a winner!
um no we have a beat down man that keeps his in a jar above the fridge
Originally posted by: nick1985
Then you power-bombed her into a cactus....right?
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
She wasn't mad per se that she had to do these things herself, just that you didn't get the subtle hint that she'd love it if you did it for her. Women aren't direct creatures like us men.
Originally posted by: SagaLore
She doesn't want help, she wants unconditional attention. Its their way of feeling like you still care for them. Remember, its the little things that matter, not the big things.
Originally posted by: kypron7
Since no one's suggested this:
Women know that men need to feel useful, so we ask them to do things. If we just do everything ourselves then they feel unneeded.
(I'm female-Kypron's fiancee)
Originally posted by: kypron7
Since no one's suggested this:
Women know that men need to feel useful, so we ask them to do things. If we just do everything ourselves then they feel unneeded.
(I'm female-Kypron's fiancee)
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: kypron7
Since no one's suggested this:
Women know that men need to feel useful, so we ask them to do things. If we just do everything ourselves then they feel unneeded.
(I'm female-Kypron's fiancee)
Haha... :laugh: