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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop doing things if she complains about how you do them.

My DH make the mistake of complaining about how I put his laundry away. He did his own laundry for quite some time, until he told me that he did not care how it was done. I also learned not to complain about the way he does dishes.[/quote]

This, IMHO, is the recipe for a happy marriage. [/quote]

A-freakin' men.  I am married for the 2nd time and I used to get into all of that with my ex wife.  She'd been a single mother for a decade and was used to 100% ruling the roost and getting everything exactly her way.  We tangled a bunch.

The second my now wife starts to complain about how I'm doing something, I listen just long enough to see if I agree with her complaint, and if I don't, I tell her I'm doing it and I'm going to do it my way; if she insists, I just stop doing it and tell her [i]she[/i] can do it her way.  I keep my mouth shut when she does things in an acceptable way (to most people) even if it's not how I'd do it or want it done.  If I can't tolerate it, I volunteer to take it over, not correct her.

In a couple of cases, where she blew me off and there was a real reason for doing it my way (eg, painting half the wall with flat and half with leftover semi-gloss, same color) and I still kept my trap shut.  I didn't have to say I told you so, and that gave her room to say "oh, you were right"...as she re-painted that wall.  As time goes by we have fewer and fewer of these kinds of bossy/controlling rounds (both of us have been guilty of it).[/quote]

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