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[–] 50 points 1 month ago
[–] 29 points 1 month ago

Hahaha, wife bad

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    [–] 37 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Why get married to someone you don't like

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago

    It's possible and common to be happily married and in a healthy relationship with someone you love deeply and who also gets on your nerves sometimes for very specific, but also very human behavior.

    Loving someone means loving all of that person, flaws included. We accept the little annoyances because overall, that person adds more to your life than they take away. Acknowledging this fact of human relationships is one way to embrace those flaws, and thus, that person.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    People change. Hope this helps

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Why stay married to someone you don't like? Hope this helps...

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Usually the answer is sex, money, fear, money, or money.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    All awful reasons. I love my wife, but if things start going bad, we'll end it. We don't want to of course, but neither of us are foolish enough to live like angry boomers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Some of us can't afford divorce. We were super close to divorce recently and the hardest part of it all is logistics and time. We have no money, like none no credit no cash, and a house that we almost lost but declared bankrupcy so it was saved for now. We have 2 kids as well. So basically we would have to sell the house to split the income before we move somewhere, but we can't sell either because we need to fix a lot of things that cost money. So were literally stuck at this time and we couldnt even afford a night at a hotel if we wanted. Thankfully we settled our differences and our disagreements over finances and are actually doing ok so we didnt have to go through with it. If we did it would have been borrowing money from relatives to fix the house and then sell it, but even that seems stressful because how do you line up another place like an apartment when you dont have down payment until the house is sold and you have no idea when thst would even be.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    WOMEN AMIRITE?!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Repost, but change it from "wife" to "kid" and it will be upvoted.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Are other people's wives like this? My other half reminds me to rest. And we work on projects together. One of us is left handed so we can even cook together on the same cooktop.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Any human would be like this if they're living with someone who is a layabout. Memes like this are always telling about the character of the poster in that they are lazy and immature. Male or female, life requires upkeep and no one should have to tell anyone else what errands/chores have to be done. Sounds like you have a good partnership because there is no imbalance in labor. Over time that breeds resentment.

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  • [+] -19 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    All these downvotes are from unmarried chuds 😅 its a joke guys.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Uh no, I'm married now for well over a decade and these memes are still just lazy boomer "wife bad" memes. Is it perfect 24/7? Of course not, but I also wouldn't say my day was ever ruined by her either.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Its not a great meme but its kind of true, at least for me, I'm someone who likes being alone a lot of the time and I don't like to be bothered when I'm doing my own thing. They could have replaced "wife " with anyone who lives with you and it would have the same effect.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    Gotta be honest. Been with my partner over 10 yrs. This meme didn't say anything about "wife ruining the day." It was simply a joke about when you have a moment the partner can sometimes sense that.

    Like this meme has never happened to you? You were never just chilling and the wife/partner comes in with something to do?

    I'd be more inclined to see this as boomer shit if it followed up with Kermit putting a gun in his mouth to escape his wife.

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Do women do that? I heard about such things from several other men talking about their experience, but I don't know whether it's really an often thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    There's a certain personality type that sees activities like watching TV or reading a book as "doing nothing" and feel it's completely reasonable to just start talking to you like it's not interrupting anything at all.

    My family has this tendency. It drives me absolutely insane. I can go three hours where I'm LITERALLY doing nothing, and the MOMENT I decide to engage with something? THAT'S when we need to talk about daily chores.

    Glad to be moved out, but if that was my daily life for decades? I'd make lighthearted image macro jokes to not scream about it too.

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