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my wife doesnt like my love for all things gadgety/techy....need advise.

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hulkster:
thanks for the comments guys.  the weird thing is, i will end up having a total of $267 or so after i buy things with gift cards, then take them all back to walmart for store credit or cash, or whatever i end up getting.  sometimes they give cash but not always.  anyway, i have all this FREE money that didnt cost me anything or her anything, it was basically just given to me.  i told her all that and she said she knew it was "free" but her response was "in the end, you are still buying stuff".   :banghead:

seriously, after she said that i was lost.  im going to get christmas money as well (her grandma already guaranteed it)....so will that mean that i can only spend my christmas money on things she deems worthy of me "needing"????? 

i swear, every time we go to kohls or whatever clothing store and i mention something about possibly getting a dress shirt (because i RARELY buy clothes...id rather buy games) she is all like "how about you get 5 shirts".  so clothes are okay for me to get.  i could spend $500 on clothes and she's cool with it.  i brought up the comparison that she likes clothes and likes wearing new clothes the same way i like playing games and getting new tech stuff.  i said "you dont really NEED 5 sweaters, but you like having new stuff....and i have no problem with that.  you enjoy it, so its cool".  but of course, the pregnancy gauntlet is thrown down and she gives me the response "well i cant wear any of my old clothes because im getting fat" for the record, shes about 130 pounds so she's not fat, but shes bigger than she was obviously because shes 5 months pregnant.  so i lose that battle too...no comparisons can be made.

i think in the end, she wants to make up my christmas list for me.  she told my mother in law to get me a ladder for christmas because i needed to change light bulbs.   :hissy:  i was sitting right there when she said it!  i looked at my mother in law like my wife had just suggested we adopt 50 cats.  my mother in law just laughed....and i said i wanted money and gift cards to best buy so i can buy more games.  booyah! 

regardless, i love my wife to death, dont get me wrong.  we have a great marriage and everything is awesome, and i cant wait for our first child.....but jiminy christmas....gimme a break! 

lharles:

--- Quote from: hulkster on November 29, 2007, 04:59:59 pm ---regardless, i love my wife to death, dont get me wrong.  we have a great marriage and everything is awesome, and i cant wait for our first child.....but jiminy christmas....gimme a break! 

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The fun is just starting.  You can enclose the word fun in the previous sentence in sarcasm brackets or not...just depends on the situation.  :)  Parenthood is AMAZING.  You get to have a small human who doesn't realize how flawed you REALLY are for the first decade plus of their lives, so they tend to like ya'.   ;D

Good luck, man.  Sincerely.

...and you'll be able to accumulate those tech toys again in the near future.  You might find your motivation to do so is sidetracked by things relating to the mini-adult though.  :)

crashwg:
IMHO, your wife has a control problem.  Of course I'm not a shrink or anything, but if I had to guess I'd say that it's not going to get better any time soon unless you some sort of counseling whether it be a professional or just an unbiased third party at the very least.

Then again, if she's hot and putting out (she is pregnant after all so, duh...) you may just want to keep your spending habits on the D/L and downplay the cost of the things she'll obviously notice.  :P

ChadTower:

It might be temporary... some women get all nesty-controlfreak while pregnant and then chill later... but then again, we don't know if she was like this before being pregnant.  I was fairly well on her side until the ladder story.

Don't hide things from her.  If you're going to be spendy on electronics, be open about it or don't do it.  Be a man in your own house.  Hiding it only affirms her control.

markrvp:
Go to your wife's closet and count all her shoes.  Ask her why she always wants more shoes.  Why is she never happy with the shoes she has?

Men and women all want more, guys just want stuff that's actually useful and will be used more than once.

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