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franklin said:
Go buy a crockpot, meat, barbecue sauce, and some gravy packets if you don't like drippings gravy or are too dumb to figure out how to add flour or cornstarch and water. Cook the roast on Sunday and throw it in the fridge. BBQ chicken, pulled pork, and roast beef and potatoes and carrots for at least a couple days with basically no work involved.

Better yet, have your wife look up the Costa Vida sweet pulled pork recipe. She'll be so proud of herself that she'll start making it more often to show off. You can pretend to not know it takes little effort and praise her for how hard she must have worked to make you a gourmet meal for a fifth the cost of going to the restaurant.

We also like to make double portions of enchiladas and the like that can freeze in the pan. It's zero extra work but saves you cooking one night when things get busy or you just don't feel like doing it or cannot come up with an idea (I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir but that's a big issue for women who have to do it every day).
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We have multiple crock pots and a **** ton of meats. She just doesn't take the ten minutes it requires to get it together. I've literally been working 7 days a week for a couple months, so I'm not doing it.
 
moevillini said:
by the way, I hope all you men complaining about your wives don't expect her to cut the grass.

that's a man's job!!!!

LOL :wink:
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My wife literally doesn't know how to start the lawnmower. I do that on top of working 7 days a week, doing the dishes, and the laundry. My wife is a stay at home mom.



But I know I shouldn't complain too much. She's a wonderful mother to the kids. She just didn't grow up having to do anything in a household just like she's in now. Her mom didn't clean or cook very often, so that's what she knows.
 
IMO, family members of posters, especially spouses, should be off limits in terms of insults, etc, but damn, bigB, sounds like you are a ****ty judge of "talent". I hope she is smoking hot.

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seattlejazzfan said:
IMO, family members of posters, especially spouses, should be off limits in terms of insults, etc, but damn, bigB, sounds like you are a ****ty judge of "talent". I hope she is smoking hot.

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All of my bitching is more the result of my current mood than anything she does/doesn't do. Overall, I'm very happy with her and our relationship. I just kind of occasionally let things build until I have to vent.




And yes, she is unbelievably smoking hot. I definitely married WAAAAAY up.
 
franklin said:
Damn dude, that's rough. I don't work anywhere near as much, have half the kids and don't have any church obligations. Guess I should quit feeling sorry for myself right about now.
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bigb said:
My wife literally doesn't know how to start the lawnmower. I do that on top of working 7 days a week, doing the dishes, and the laundry. My wife is a stay at home mom.



But I know I shouldn't complain too much. She's a wonderful mother to the kids. She just didn't grow up having to do anything in a household just like she's in now. Her mom didn't clean or cook very often, so that's what she knows.
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I'm not trolling or trying to instigate when I say from the little I've read in the last 20 seconds or so that it sounds like you enable her. Am I wrong?

Having said that, is there anything she gives a **** about that if you didn't do it, she'd hem and haw, and you could use that as leverage?

I ask because your wife sounds (a bit) how MsSerp used to be. Only MsSerp has always worked. But my point is, MsSerp's cleaning (amongst other things), or lack thereof, was God awful. But I would bring it up all time, being as frank as one could possibly be, about the fact that I wouldn't tolerate such and **** had to change. Period. And it has.
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
I'm not trolling or trying to instigate when I say from the little I've read in the last 20 seconds or so that it sounds like you enable her. Am I wrong?

Having said that, is there anything she gives a **** about that if you didn't do it, she'd hem and haw, and you could use that as leverage?

I ask because your wife sounds (a bit) how MsSerp used to be. Only MsSerp has always worked. But my point is, MsSerp's cleaning (amongst other things), or lack thereof, was God awful. But I would bring it up all time, being as frank as one could possibly be, about the fact that I wouldn't tolerate such and **** had to change. Period. And it has.
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Oh, I totally enable her. Well aware of that fact. Me doing it is easier than the headache.
And in all fairness, now that the kids are back in school, she has gotten better.
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
I hear ya. No judging bro. I just have no patience for ******** like that.
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No offense bro but you don't know what it's like having kids.

My wife was a clean freak before having two, then it all flipped complete opposite. It was hard not to enable her. She was always a very hard working, career oriented person but also grew up with the house wife expectations ingrained, as was mine. That's what we had expected as a life together at 19, 20, 21, but it turned out that being home tending kids all day isn't exactly the ideal life for every woman. Not tolerating "patience for ******** like that" is not an option at that point in life. Talking to four walls all day (and night) isn't very fun.
 
franklin said:
No offense bro but you don't know what it's like having kids.

My wife was a clean freak before having two, then it all flipped complete opposite. It was hard not to enable her. She was always a very hard working, career oriented person but also grew up with the house wife expectations ingrained, as was mine. That's what we had expected as a life together at 19, 20, 21, but it turned out that being home tending kids all day isn't exactly the ideal life for every woman. Not tolerating "patience for ******** like that" is not an option at that point in life. Talking to four walls all day (and night) isn't very fun.
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I'll respectfully disagree. I do have a kid (only two months old) but I'll brush that aside as she's so young and so you're right, I don't have a full appreciation for the time and energy it will take to tend to and raise multiple children once they're a bit older.

That said, I find people, in general, to make excuses for why **** doesn't get done. Listen, I don't need a 100% clean house all the time. I wasn't saying that. In my particular case that I think alluded to, I would clean the whole house and 30 minutes later, MsSerp would leave crumbs all over the countertops. They'd still be there the next day, the next night. They take five seconds to wipe off into the trash. It's ****ed up. Sorry but it is. If someone is going to put forth all the energy to clean the whole house, have some respect for it. **** like that, basic disrespect or common courtesy is one thing I was mentioning that would bother me. There needs to be at least semi-equitable effort in the relationship imo.
 
And I know because like bigb, I do all the **** around the house. I have hired somebody for the lawn (I suck at edging) because I want it to look perfect but beyond that I clean all our hardwoods (2,800 square feet of them), dust the house, Windex the windows, clean the kitchen, take out the trash, empty our basement's dehumidifiers multiple times a day, do the laundry (MsSerp does do this about 30% of the time), get the groceries (she does this about 30% of the time too), do all the odd jobs, maintain a job as a teacher for which I bring home a lot of work, and still find time for family and life. I'm not saying this to brag. I'm saying this because being responsible adult is possible. It's very possible. And as a society, I see how people seem to make more and more excuses as to why they can't do certain things. The big one seems to be manage their child.
 
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