What is it with women getting "quirks" as they age?

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jjyiz28

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I don't understand why people would stay in situations where they are not happy. I've always told her that if the day comes either of us are not happy, we should just move on. She's ok with that, and so far, we have always been happy. My friends can't seem to understand how I can have this relationship that isn't based on fear of what my wife will think.

call me old fashioned but i thought marriage was for better or for worse. try to fix the marriage, instead of looking for a new one.
 

PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
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I actually hate her being in my kitchen. She could burn water.

I'm a trained chef and have ways I like to do things. She doesn't do those things

While my dad is no trained chef, he'd lived alone for quite awhile before he met my mother and knew how to cook a lot of things out of necessity. My mom didn't really know how to cook. My father taught my mother to cook and then promptly stopped doing it at all.
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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can't think of any quirks really... she would walk past a napkin on the floor at home and not pick it up. Is that quirky?
 

sourceninja

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call me old fashioned but i thought marriage was for better or for worse. try to fix the marriage, instead of looking for a new one.

Fixing is not about changing people, because you can't change people. It's about finding ways to hide from the truth. For example, I like me and the way I am. If I wife tried to change me because she didn't like me, I think should would be better off finding someone else.

You look at marriage from a religious standpoint, but we got married for the legal aspects only. If there were no legal advantages to marriage, we would have been fine the way things were. Being atheists has advantages tof no guilt for sex and living together.
 

PingSpike

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can't think of any quirks really... she would walk past a napkin on the floor at home and not pick it up. Is that quirky?

Yeah, mine does that too but I give her a pass since I have dirty sock blindness.
 

Fritzo

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Jan 3, 2001
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can't think of any quirks really... she would walk past a napkin on the floor at home and not pick it up. Is that quirky?

No.

If she tried to clean off the napkin so it could be reused: yes.
 

jjyiz28

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Fixing is not about changing people, because you can't change people. It's about finding ways to hide from the truth. For example, I like me and the way I am. If I wife tried to change me because she didn't like me, I think should would be better off finding someone else.

You look at marriage from a religious standpoint, but we got married for the legal aspects only. If there were no legal advantages to marriage, we would have been fine the way things were. Being atheists has advantages tof no guilt for sex and living together.

i can see what you are saying. i dont believe someones core character changes too much over time. so what you see at the altar is more or less what you get. i could be wrong, im not married. im atheist so no religious standpoint, just making a personal vow to each other seems very sacred. when you give them your word,
 

jagec

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will only fill the coffee maker with cold water because 'it tastes better'

wont clean anything in cold water, because it wont 'get as clean' (when using cleaning solution) and always uses atleast double the mfg recommended amounts of cleaners

The hot water that has been sitting in your tank will have more dissolved minerals than the cold (even if you have plastic pipes...all water heaters have sacrificial anodes, usually aluminum or magnesium).

Furthermore, hot water is a much better solvent than cold. This means that you can get away with less detergent and shorter washing times.

Manufacturers have to balance efficacy (if the product doesn't work, people won't buy it), greed (if people use more product, they have to buy more), and safety/liability (if the product is concentrated enough to poison children, you might get bad press or lawsuits) when they are issuing recommendations. Generally the balance of these factors means that the recommendations are good ones.

I guess 1 out of 3 isn't bad.
 

Kadarin

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I know a couple who got married and moved into a condo together. She would not allow him to poop in the bathroom in their condo, she forced him to go downstairs to the fitness area and use the bathroom there and if we was going to pee in the condo bathroom, he had to sit so he didn't accidentally splash.

Not surprisingly they divorced a year later, but amazingly they are now back together after two years apart!

KT

Wow... Idiocy like this would be an absolute dealbreaker for me.
 

sourceninja

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i can see what you are saying. i dont believe someones core character changes too much over time. so what you see at the altar is more or less what you get. i could be wrong, im not married. im atheist so no religious standpoint, just making a personal vow to each other seems very sacred. when you give them your word,

I promised to love and cherish for as long as we live. I think for the most part that will always be true. But that doesn't mean I will be able to stand living with her forever (or her with me).
 

JulesMaximus

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Standing around the water cooler this morning, we were all talking about our wives, and each one of us was able to spout off something instantly that was completely unreasonable about them. WTF is wrong with women?

- One mentioned their wife takes the batteries out of the remote controls when they're not in use.
- One won't allow their wireless router and DSL modem to stay on over night because it uses too much electricity.
- One throws away any food that is more than 1 day old in the refrigerator.
- One won't allow anything to sit on a table or counters. The poor guy has to charge his cell phone at work because it's not allowed to be on the counter while charging.

There were a good dozen or more of these stories. I think the penis releases hormones that level out your personality as you get older. The lack of one is making them go crazy

Get the women together. I'd bet you one meellion dollars that each of them could come up with something they find equally annoying about us.
 

0roo0roo

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"dam and Ray welcome woodworking comedian Jay Larson to the show. Jay talks about selling a table to members of The Cult, and the guys discuss why women get crazy as they get older. "http://www.adamcarolla.com/AHBlog/2012/03/02/backhanded/
pretty common adam carolla rant
 
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My fiancee and could be be talking to me on Skype/Facebook Chat and at the same time, she will start a completely different (and irrelevant) discussion thread via text messaging. I have told her about a dozen times already, "Just because you have unlimited texts doesn't mean you HAVE to send out 500 texts every day." but I don't think she gets it. She has this insatiable need to text every waking minute.

I actually disable my message alert tone when I'm at work. I have told her a million times that I barely have time to scratch my nose or grab a quick bite when I'm at work but she still considers it important to broadcast all her thoughts via text, including:
1) Did you have something to eat?
2) When will you have dinner?
3) What will you have for dinner?
4) Why don't you pack dinner instead of eating cafeteria food all the time?
5) Have you tried switching to fruit juice instead of soda?
6) How many cigarettes have you had today?
7) I liked how Dunhill smells. Why are you smoking Marlboro these days?
8) I just uploaded a picture on Facebook. Do you Like it?
9) Oh, you saw it. You liked it too. Can you Like it on Facebook too?
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Y U NO STOP TEXTING? /rage
 

rdb4133

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My fiancee and could be be talking to me on Skype/Facebook Chat and at the same time, she will start a completely different (and irrelevant) discussion thread via text messaging. I have told her about a dozen times already, "Just because you have unlimited texts doesn't mean you HAVE to send out 500 texts every day." but I don't think she gets it. She has this insatiable need to text every waking minute.

I actually disable my message alert tone when I'm at work. I have told her a million times that I barely have time to scratch my nose or grab a quick bite when I'm at work but she still considers it important to broadcast all her thoughts via text, including:
1) Did you have something to eat?
2) When will you have dinner?
3) What will you have for dinner?
4) Why don't you pack dinner instead of eating cafeteria food all the time?
5) Have you tried switching to fruit juice instead of soda?
6) How many cigarettes have you had today?
7) I liked how Dunhill smells. Why are you smoking Marlboro these days?
8) I just uploaded a picture on Facebook. Do you Like it?
9) Oh, you saw it. You liked it too. Can you Like it on Facebook too?
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Y U NO STOP TEXTING? /rage

LOL.....
 
Feb 25, 2011
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My exwife went crazy as she got older, it was like she went biopolar.

If the kids were doing something she did not like, instead of dealing with the issue, she would go into screaming fits of rage.

The same thing went for me. If there was an issue, instead of talking about it, the only way she knew how to deal with a problem was a screaming fit.

I finally drew the line, I left and we divorced.

My exwife was not like that when we met. As she got older she got worse with her anger issues. One thing that helped desolve the marriage was when she refused to get help. Several times I tried to sit down with her and talk about the issue, and her answer was another screaming rage tantrum.
My mom kinda did that.

She went to the doctor about it, eventually. They put her on Atenolol and it was immediate night & day.

For either gender, your outward emotional state is a reflection of you how you feel inside, and some of this is involuntary stress reaction. Women are screwed - their fight or flight mechanisms trip easier, and stay tripped longer. In my mom's case, hers was basically tripped all the goddam time.

On a semi related note, biofeedback is so fucking cool.
 
Feb 25, 2011
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My fiancee and could be be talking to me on Skype/Facebook Chat and at the same time, she will start a completely different (and irrelevant) discussion thread via text messaging. I have told her about a dozen times already, "Just because you have unlimited texts doesn't mean you HAVE to send out 500 texts every day." but I don't think she gets it. She has this insatiable need to text every waking minute.

I actually disable my message alert tone when I'm at work. I have told her a million times that I barely have time to scratch my nose or grab a quick bite when I'm at work but she still considers it important to broadcast all her thoughts via text, including:
1) Did you have something to eat?
2) When will you have dinner?
3) What will you have for dinner?
4) Why don't you pack dinner instead of eating cafeteria food all the time?
5) Have you tried switching to fruit juice instead of soda?
6) How many cigarettes have you had today?
7) I liked how Dunhill smells. Why are you smoking Marlboro these days?
8) I just uploaded a picture on Facebook. Do you Like it?
9) Oh, you saw it. You liked it too. Can you Like it on Facebook too?
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Y U NO STOP TEXTING? /rage

Does she have a job? If so, it's not hard enough.

...says the guy who's on ATOT while sitting in a server closet.
 
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