God I love her but she drives me nuts!!!

[nickagneta]

The wife that is!

How is it that two people who are so different can fall in love, spend the rest of their lives together and not kill each other. She doesn't understand basketball or my love of Celticsblog. I will just never get starting to listen to Christmas music in October. She steps out of the shower soaking wet and gets the rug all wet. I leave the toilet seat cover up. She needs blankets to sleep. A nice cool room for me. She shops for 10 hours and comes home with one item. I do my Christmas shopping for the entire family, the food shopping, and a run to the Depot in about two hours. I drive on highways, she takes back roads. A great evening for me is home with a beer and the Red Sox on, she needs to go dancing until 2 AM.

How can this be??

And let's not even get into the nagging! Okay, let's:

"The ketchup belongs on the refrigerator door not on the shelf!"
"Pans don't go on the top part of the dishwasher!"
"If I told you once I told you a hundred times, replace the empty roll of toilet paper with a new one when you finish it."
"Did you do the taxes yet? It's February 12th and we only have until April 15th you know!"
"It's Thursday, trash night!!"
"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"
"The back yard needs raking1"
"put your freaking beer bottles on the coasters, you're ruining my tables!!"
"Use the TV guide channel instead of flicking through the stations, you're driving me insane."
"Take the laundry to the cellar please."
"Did you take the laundry down yet?"
"Did you hear me, I asked you to take the laundry downstairs."
"When are you going to take the laundry downstairs."
"Ummmmmmm, the laundry, today!"
"Let me guess you're not going to take the laundry down for me and now I have to hurt my back bringing it down myself!"


I watch the old Honeymooners episodes and see Ralph wanting to punch his wife to the moon and there are those times where the thought goes through the mind sometimes. But what can you do. All our loved ones drive us insane in their own little, and sometimes very big, ways, but we love them to death and would miss all that stuff if they weren't their.

So, it's my 22nd wedding anniversary, 27 total years together, and I can help but think that if she asks me to take down that laundry one more time it's "Pow, straight to the moon!!"

I mean it's only been 5 minutes since she first asked me!!

27 years!!!!!!!!!!!! She is definitely the ying to my yang, my better half but there are those times where I wonder how we made it through all this time without killing each other. Must be I love her more than I can imagine or we did it for the kids.

Oh, and don't even get me started on how much they drive me nuts......

[Redz]

Congrats Nick.  I can echo a lot of the same differences (oxymoron alert ).

Time flies when you're having fun...or occasionally having fun between the other stuff.  It's a cool thing to revisit the spark that brought you together way back when and realize it's still there - though sometimes all of the aforementioned "other stuff" make it difficult to recognize that "spark", it's important to do so and comforting to know it's ever present.

[celticmaestro]

I was slightly disappointed this wasn't a jsaad thread, I thought this was going to be the long-awaited sequel!

Happy anniversary to you Nick. It's great to hear stories as genuine as yours. I hear ya though, love is a funny thing. Congrats anyway.

And hey, take the laundry down.

[nickagneta]

I was slightly disappointed this wasn't a jsaad thread, I thought this was going to be the long-awaited sequel!

Happy anniversary to you Nick. It's great to hear stories as genuine as yours. I hear ya though, love is a funny thing. Congrats anyway.

And hey, take the laundry down.

Just what I need, virtual nagging!!

[libermaniac]

TP ... funny read. 

[ManUp]

"The ketchup belongs on the refrigerator door not on the shelf!"
"Pans don't go on the top part of the dishwasher!"
"If I told you once I told you a hundred times, replace the empty roll of toilet paper with a new one when you finish it."
"Did you do the taxes yet? It's February 12th and we only have until April 15th you know!"
"It's Thursday, trash night!!"
"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"
"The back yard needs raking1"
"put your freaking beer bottles on the coasters, you're ruining my tables!!"
"Use the TV guide channel instead of flicking through the stations, you're driving me insane."
"Take the laundry to the cellar please."
"Did you take the laundry down yet?"
"Did you hear me, I asked you to take the laundry downstairs."
"When are you going to take the laundry downstairs."
"Ummmmmmm, the laundry, today!"
"Let me guess you're not going to take the laundry down for me and now I have to hurt my back bringing it down myself!"

Hahaha It's like you were typing while she was nagging.

Tp. I find your wife's nagging very entertaining.

Not in that situation yet.

[BballTim]

"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"

  Unless it's a dire emergency I'm only allowed to wash sheets and towels (not that I really mind...).

[Redz]

"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"

  Unless it's a dire emergency I'm only allowed to wash sheets and towels (not that I really mind...).

Not being trusted to do the laundry has been the source of much ongoing, self-perpetuating resentment.  I've offered many times to do the laundry and "lighten the lod", but she doesn't trust me with it. Yet she resents that she has to do all the laundry.

There's got to be a marital term for this..."Spin cycle"? 

[Hoyo de Monterrey]

"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"

  Unless it's a dire emergency I'm only allowed to wash sheets and towels (not that I really mind...).

Not being trusted to do the laundry has been the source of much ongoing, self-perpetuating resentment.  I've offered many times to do the laundry and "lighten the lod", but she doesn't trust me with it. Yet she resents that she has to do all the laundry.

There's got to be a marital term for this..."Spin cycle"? 

My relationship term for our version of the self perpetuating resentment definitely involves the word cycle, but the only thing spinning is my head after she slaps me

[Redz]

"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"

  Unless it's a dire emergency I'm only allowed to wash sheets and towels (not that I really mind...).

Not being trusted to do the laundry has been the source of much ongoing, self-perpetuating resentment.  I've offered many times to do the laundry and "lighten the lod", but she doesn't trust me with it. Yet she resents that she has to do all the laundry.

There's got to be a marital term for this..."Spin cycle"? 

My relationship term for our version of the self perpetuating resentment definitely involves the word cycle, but the only thing spinning is my head after she slaps me

Yeh, there's that too

[crownsy]

lighten the lod

Oh come on now redz, no one can lighten the L.O.D, everyone knows that.

[Redz]

lighten the lod

Oh come on now redz, no one can lighten the L.O.D, everyone knows that.

Crownsy, You're not calling me out on a typo are you?

Are you sure you want that can `o' worms opened?

But yeh, I'll lighten those chumps...Redz has no fear!

[crownsy]

lighten the lod

Oh come on now redz, no one can lighten the L.O.D, everyone knows that.

Crownsy, You're not calling me out on a typo are you?

Are you sure you want that can `o' worms opened?

But yeh, I'll lighten those chumps...Redz has no fear!

really i just wanted a excuse to post a picture of the best tag team of all time. 

I'm the last to call someone out for a typo, i'm the king of them 

[Redz]

lighten the lod

Oh come on now redz, no one can lighten the L.O.D, everyone knows that.

Crownsy, You're not calling me out on a typo are you?

Are you sure you want that can `o' worms opened?

But yeh, I'll lighten those chumps...Redz has no fear!

really i just wanted a excuse to post a picture of the best tag team of all time. 

I'm the last to call someone out for a typo, i'm the king of them 

I know!  LOL...I got a good chuckle out of it.  Those guys are silly.  Do they take the spiky things off when the wrestle?

[nickagneta]

Let my wife's nagging be a lesson to all those out there that will someday be living with the one you love. This is just the tip of the iceberg guys. Remember you'll never be allowed near the laundry but yard work and mopping floors are all yours. You will be listening to her remind you or tell you to hang your towel, put down the seat cover, replenish the toilet paper, walk the dog, change the cat litter box, use the coasters, run to the store, put the cordless phone on the jack, don't leave your keys all over the place, wipe your feet, put your clothes away, take her to her mother's house, turn the heat down in the house before leaving, wash the car, change the light bulb, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.................for the rest of your life, if you love her that much.