Anonymous wrote:Cogiteur wrote:Anonymous wrote:First disclosure - I am female. Second disclosure - I saw myself in this - used to be like this years ago. I woke up and my marriage is SO MUCH BETTER! Do I get bitchy sometimes? Sure. But I'm also quick to let him know when I'm overtired or PMSed, so that he doesn't take it personally. In fact, now we laugh a lot more than we did, because he will say something like "OK, you know this is not my fault, but you are giving me sh*t about it anyway, right?" Before he would be spinning trying to fix things that were NOT his fault. A huge catch-22 for men.
So take note and ask yourself if perhaps, there is any part of you in this. It just might save your marriage:
http://www.youngcons.com/woman-realizes-shes-been-verbally-abusing-her-husband-without-even-knowing-it/
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This article could also be titled, "The Other Reason Men Have Affairs."
Perhaps we're getting hints into the reason behind your inability to sustain intimacy with a partner.
Anonymous wrote:DH nags me over stupid stuff and it makes me crazy. I hide stuff from him just to avoid the nagging like in the article. I guess we have problems.
Cogiteur wrote:Anonymous wrote:First disclosure - I am female. Second disclosure - I saw myself in this - used to be like this years ago. I woke up and my marriage is SO MUCH BETTER! Do I get bitchy sometimes? Sure. But I'm also quick to let him know when I'm overtired or PMSed, so that he doesn't take it personally. In fact, now we laugh a lot more than we did, because he will say something like "OK, you know this is not my fault, but you are giving me sh*t about it anyway, right?" Before he would be spinning trying to fix things that were NOT his fault. A huge catch-22 for men.
So take note and ask yourself if perhaps, there is any part of you in this. It just might save your marriage:
http://www.youngcons.com/woman-realizes-shes-been-verbally-abusing-her-husband-without-even-knowing-it/
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This article could also be titled, "The Other Reason Men Have Affairs."
Anonymous wrote:I think both sides are guilty of nagging, but women tend to nag over more "silly" things. I mean, I load the dishwasher horribly. It drives DH nuts and when I do load it (rare) he will usually comment on it. The thing is, he's right. There really IS a proper way to load the dishwasher because when I load in my way, not everything is clean. When I load it his way, everything is clean. So nagging? Yes. But with good reason.
I remember nagging DH about something stupid (I can't remember exactly what) and he just looked at me and said "is there a different outcome between how I do and and how you want me to do it?" and when I realized the answer was no, I shut my mouth.
Some nagging is constructive. Most is not.
Cogiteur wrote:Anonymous wrote:First disclosure - I am female. Second disclosure - I saw myself in this - used to be like this years ago. I woke up and my marriage is SO MUCH BETTER! Do I get bitchy sometimes? Sure. But I'm also quick to let him know when I'm overtired or PMSed, so that he doesn't take it personally. In fact, now we laugh a lot more than we did, because he will say something like "OK, you know this is not my fault, but you are giving me sh*t about it anyway, right?" Before he would be spinning trying to fix things that were NOT his fault. A huge catch-22 for men.
So take note and ask yourself if perhaps, there is any part of you in this. It just might save your marriage:
http://www.youngcons.com/woman-realizes-shes-been-verbally-abusing-her-husband-without-even-knowing-it/
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This article could also be titled, "The Other Reason Men Have Affairs."
Anonymous wrote:First disclosure - I am female. Second disclosure - I saw myself in this - used to be like this years ago. I woke up and my marriage is SO MUCH BETTER! Do I get bitchy sometimes? Sure. But I'm also quick to let him know when I'm overtired or PMSed, so that he doesn't take it personally. In fact, now we laugh a lot more than we did, because he will say something like "OK, you know this is not my fault, but you are giving me sh*t about it anyway, right?" Before he would be spinning trying to fix things that were NOT his fault. A huge catch-22 for men.
So take note and ask yourself if perhaps, there is any part of you in this. It just might save your marriage:
http://www.youngcons.com/woman-realizes-shes-been-verbally-abusing-her-husband-without-even-knowing-it/
Anonymous wrote:TL;DR