Sharing a car sucks

[Anonymous]

OP here, I looked back at this forum for responses for TWO days and nothing! So I stopped checking on it.

Anyone who has mentioned getting two cars - it's silly. We only drive 700 miles a month. Most of that driving we are together. Even in non-pandemic times, we both work from home, we drive .5 miles to take DD to daycare, and that's it.

And the color is important to me because I want a white car and he likes dark gray, a color we've had for 8 years and two cars. I want white because now we have kids and it's safer, cleaner and it doesn't get as hot.

But also, since this post, he has allowed me to get the car I want. I want the Volvo XC60, and he liked the RDX. We test drove both and I hated the RDX. The drive was fine but the infotainment was miserable. He was OK with the Volvo but he said we could get the Volvo. they were the same price with a lease, but the Volvo is 10k more to buy (better residual I guess). I'll keep him!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Sharing a car sucks if you both need to go somewhere at once, not because the color isn't your first choice.

We share our calendar and coordinate when this happens. I can always borrow my moms car but I have NEVER had to do that. So far we have never had this issue of needing the car at the same time. He pretty much never leaves the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I looked back at this forum for responses for TWO days and nothing! So I stopped checking on it.

Anyone who has mentioned getting two cars - it's silly. We only drive 700 miles a month. Most of that driving we are together. Even in non-pandemic times, we both work from home, we drive .5 miles to take DD to daycare, and that's it.

And the color is important to me because I want a white car and he likes dark gray, a color we've had for 8 years and two cars. I want white because now we have kids and it's safer, cleaner and it doesn't get as hot.

But also, since this post, he has allowed me to get the car I want. I want the Volvo XC60, and he liked the RDX. We test drove both and I hated the RDX. The drive was fine but the infotainment was miserable. He was OK with the Volvo but he said we could get the Volvo. they were the same price with a lease, but the Volvo is 10k more to buy (better residual I guess). I'll keep him!

See, you put this question in the wrong forum. You think it's a car issue, but really it's a marriage/relationship issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I looked back at this forum for responses for TWO days and nothing! So I stopped checking on it.

Anyone who has mentioned getting two cars - it's silly. We only drive 700 miles a month. Most of that driving we are together. Even in non-pandemic times, we both work from home, we drive .5 miles to take DD to daycare, and that's it.

And the color is important to me because I want a white car and he likes dark gray, a color we've had for 8 years and two cars. I want white because now we have kids and it's safer, cleaner and it doesn't get as hot.

But also, since this post, he has allowed me to get the car I want. I want the Volvo XC60, and he liked the RDX. We test drove both and I hated the RDX. The drive was fine but the infotainment was miserable. He was OK with the Volvo but he said we could get the Volvo. they were the same price with a lease, but the Volvo is 10k more to buy (better residual I guess). I'll keep him!

See, you put this question in the wrong forum. You think it's a car issue, but really it's a marriage/relationship issue.

Yeah Car forum is pretty quiet. Relationship forum only has two solutions to EVERY post. 1. get divorced. 2. get therapy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I looked back at this forum for responses for TWO days and nothing! So I stopped checking on it.

Anyone who has mentioned getting two cars - it's silly. We only drive 700 miles a month. Most of that driving we are together. Even in non-pandemic times, we both work from home, we drive .5 miles to take DD to daycare, and that's it.

And the color is important to me because I want a white car and he likes dark gray, a color we've had for 8 years and two cars. I want white because now we have kids and it's safer, cleaner and it doesn't get as hot.

But also, since this post, he has allowed me to get the car I want. I want the Volvo XC60, and he liked the RDX. We test drove both and I hated the RDX. The drive was fine but the infotainment was miserable. He was OK with the Volvo but he said we could get the Volvo. they were the same price with a lease, but the Volvo is 10k more to buy (better residual I guess). I'll keep him!

See, you put this question in the wrong forum. You think it's a car issue, but really it's a marriage/relationship issue.

Yeah Car forum is pretty quiet. Relationship forum only has two solutions to EVERY post. 1. get divorced. 2. get therapy.

To be fair, both of those suggestions have a better chance at solving the problem than what you'd get from Car Talk.