Reply to My husband is the least fun man ever

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "My husband is the least fun man ever"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Yes! If he can’t even play along on a holiday that doesn’t require much effort (no religious services, no elaborate meal expectations, no office obligations), then how can I count on him to show even a minimum of effort or enthusiasm for interacting with me as a human being on the harder, regular days?[/quote]

You obviously have no idea how much effort it takes for an introvert to make small talk with strangers. We hate it. It's exhausting.

But interacting with you sounds exhausting too, tbh.
[/quote]

I remember when my wife would critique me after outings telling me how my small talks went - how many times I looked away, or looked at my phone, or seemed uninterested, or seemed like I wanted to interrupt. And the thing is that I'm an introvert who goes to these things with her to please her, but she is an introvert too. So she stays in the corner and basically doesn't socialize. Meanwhile I've got people asking me all kinds of questions about my job and my dissertation and my research, but yeah she doesn't want me to talk about those things at parties because they aren't social. But I literally do math for movies and sports and books so I think that's easier to talk about, especially since people always ask me about it. But then I try to shift it to just the latest MCU movie or whatever I've read lately (cause like OPs husband I've probably brought a book), then its not sophisticated enough because I'm excluding people who don't know about that stuff.

I really hate socializing at parties. Its gotten to the point to where I will just help clean up or organize things to not have to socialize, but then I'm criticized for that but I don't care any more. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics