Smugness

[Anonymous]

In what ways are you smug?
What types of smugness really annoy you?

(First person to proclaim they are not smug about anything will be obviously the smuggest of all)

[Anonymous]

My children are well-behaved and good students. DH and I met at a well-known, good college.

[Anonymous]

DH and I have a really great and easy marriage.

DS is well behaved, kind, and smart.

I definitely try not to be smug and I think I do a decent job keeping my smugness internal.

The type of smugness that bothers me? Probably the cleaning eating "oh I could never eat something processed" smug or the "don't you know how bad travel is on the environment?" Type of smug.

[Anonymous]

I try not to be smug about having a kid who excels academically in an office the charts way, and the fact that DH and I are set up for early retirement in our early 30s. But I know I don't succeed.

The smugness comes from the belief that we made these things happen. DD was struggling at school I usually so we made some early investments in her academics and they really paid off. And DH and I are super savers who eschewed a lot of spending in order to squirrel money away and that paid off big time with several major investments so we are able to bump up our timeline. I am just super proud of us for this stuff and I struggle with being graceful about it. I could stand to be humbled at the moment.

[Anonymous]

I guess I’m inwardly smug about:

-my decor and design sense
-that my kid is a great eater
-that my family and I are musically literate (classical/instruments)

[Anonymous]

I'm smug about something most everyone would find unimportant or scoff at, so it's easy to be discreet about it.

[Anonymous]

Honestly I'm a bit smug about how comfortable I am in my own skin. I rarely if ever worry about behaving the way I think somebody expects me to, including clothes/appearance or whatever. I have a good sense of what I want and what I value and I spend time and energy on those things, even if they may make me appear to others as less than perfect.

[Anonymous]

I'm smug about still looking good after becoming a mom. Below pre-kid weight, now work out more.

[Anonymous]

I'm smug that my DS is tall and that a lot of the boys who were awful when he was younger ended up short.

People who are smug about not watching trashy TV or not watching any TV at all annoy me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a really great and easy marriage.

DS is well behaved, kind, and smart.

I definitely try not to be smug and I think I do a decent job keeping my smugness internal.

The type of smugness that bothers me? Probably the cleaning eating "oh I could never eat something processed" smug or the "don't you know how bad travel is on the environment?" Type of smug.

+1. Just about anything out of the mouths of UMC liberals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm smug about something most everyone would find unimportant or scoff at, so it's easy to be discreet about it.

I’m curious!

[Anonymous]

I'm smug in the traditional way of not being a parent but judging other parents and knowing I'd do better.

I hate when confidence goes over the line into cockiness, generally seen in men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I try not to be smug about having a kid who excels academically in an office the charts way, and the fact that DH and I are set up for early retirement in our early 30s. But I know I don't succeed.

The smugness comes from the belief that we made these things happen. DD was struggling at school I usually so we made some early investments in her academics and they really paid off. And DH and I are super savers who eschewed a lot of spending in order to squirrel money away and that paid off big time with several major investments so we are able to bump up our timeline. I am just super proud of us for this stuff and I struggle with being graceful about it. I could stand to be humbled at the moment.

It's enough that you're self-aware, PP, I certainly hope nothing happens to jeopardize your good fortune.

We have also had good fortune come our way, to balance some misfortunes. I, too, am aware that our stock portfolio has developed mainly all by its little own self. Sure, I picked the right high tech at the right time: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon. But there was a lot of risk to my strategy, and there continues to be.

On the health front, it's not great at all, sadly. Both my children are now diagnosed with serious and chronic crap they will have to deal with all their lives (one mental, the other physical). It certainly brings perspective to my life.

[Anonymous]

I'm smug about being a good employee; there is a coworker I aggressively roll my eyes at every time she wanders into a meeting 20 minutes late. She knows I hate her, lol. But I can't stand clueless people who think their time is more valuable than everyone else's.

I'm a bit smug with my two SILs. They have never been kind to me, and now that their lives are shite, I'm a bit smug about it. Probably visibly so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I have a really great and easy marriage.

DS is well behaved, kind, and smart.

I definitely try not to be smug and I think I do a decent job keeping my smugness internal.

The type of smugness that bothers me? Probably the cleaning eating "oh I could never eat something processed" smug or the "don't you know how bad travel is on the environment?" Type of smug.

I always assume they are secretly binge-eating Frito's and Pepperidge Farm pound cake, lol. Methinks the lady doth protest too much and all that.