I hear men complain about their wives.
1). Weight gain.
2). Doesn’t understand finances/spends too much money
3). Not enough/not interesting enough sex
4). Doesn’t cook (this is usually someone with a former big career who has become a SAHM...never complaints about 2,3 with this type though).
5) Drinks too much.

I actually brag about my wife when it comes up bc she is amazing. Mostly tired of hearing about her work but lots of sex so no complaints from me.

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Anonymous wrote:If women think that men sit around and talk about their wives in personal detail....it doesn’t happen. We have more important things to talk about like sports.

As always, women are projecting what they do (constantly complaining about their spouse) onto men.

This right here. Men in a normal marriage never complain about their wives. My father, over 54 years of marriage, never complained once about my mom. My mom complained daily about him (and her mother-in-law and various other in-laws).

I think this is something women do more but I could see guys talking about their wives buying too much baby stuff etc. I know my husband said his friend was getting annoyed by his wife's nesting once.

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Anonymous wrote:Basically what the other guys have said -- it doesn't come up much because guys don't want to talk about it. To the limited extent it does come up, it's jokes about being sexless and complaints about the wife having a lot more materialistic needs.

Ditto. I practically never hear a word about some guy friend's wife. If ever I do, it something expensive she purchased or low interest in sex. While I can't help with that first topic, I can with the second: scheduled sex same days/times twice per week. This "one weird trick" has saved my marriage.

+1 to all of this. If wives come up, which they rarely do, it's that she is spending too much or of course the old jokes about how their sex life is non-existent. The spending can come up with casual friends but in my experience men will only bring up sex life with close friends.

We schedule it once a week, and my close friends I mentioned this to were surprisingly jealous. Many of them get it much, much less (reinforcing my wife's view that 1x a week a lot compared to most). I know there have been a lot of threads here about frequency and people claiming multiple times per week are the norm but they are either newlyweds of or lying.

Anonymous wrote:If women think that men sit around and talk about their wives in personal detail....it doesn’t happen. We have more important things to talk about like sports.

As always, women are projecting what they do (constantly complaining about their spouse) onto men.

Anonymous wrote:Basically what the other guys have said -- it doesn't come up much because guys don't want to talk about it. To the limited extent it does come up, it's jokes about being sexless and complaints about the wife having a lot more materialistic needs.

Ditto. I practically never hear a word about some guy friend's wife. If ever I do, it something expensive she purchased or low interest in sex. While I can't help with that first topic, I can with the second: scheduled sex same days/times twice per week. This "one weird trick" has saved my marriage.

Basically what the other guys have said -- it doesn't come up much because guys don't want to talk about it. To the limited extent it does come up, it's jokes about being sexless and complaints about the wife having a lot more materialistic needs.

I have a group of very close friends from elementary school that are like brothers so occasionally someone will open up about how marital sex life sucks and the rest will nod in agreement but it's not a common topic because it's like complaining about the heat in Arizona in the summer.

Otherwise, agree with other posters, it's Seinfeld, mostly laughs, war stories about past girlfriends and parties, jokes and sports. Could go an entire guys weekend away and the topic of our wives never really comes up.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, that’s not what we talk about. In a four hour round of golf we will talk about:
What our kids are up to
What an idiot Trump is as well as all of the Democrats
Sports
New jokes - some about wives
Sports
Who’s going to get a real drink at the turn at 10am
Sports
How’s business
Sports
How are golf games suck
Who’s staying for lunch
Who owes who on the bets.

What a hoot but it is true. Men are like the show Seinfeld - it was about nothing but it was hilarious. The more we can laugh over stupid stuff the happier we are.

Anonymous wrote:Not in my circles. Seriously, we often just sit around and talk about how lucky a bunch of sad sacks like us are to have such great wives.

We are!

So very lucky!

They are great!

Seriously, that’s not what we talk about. In a four hour round of golf we will talk about:
What our kids are up to
What an idiot Trump is as well as all of the Democrats
Sports
New jokes - some about wives
Sports
Who’s going to get a real drink at the turn at 10am
Sports
How’s business
Sports
How are golf games suck
Who’s staying for lunch
Who owes who on the bets.

Complaining is whining and men hate whining whether it’s from their wives or other guys. And it’s worse when it’s from other guys. Guys aren’t like The View or book clubs. We don’t sit around and talk.

If women think that men sit around and talk about their wives in personal detail....it doesn’t happen. We have more important things to talk about like sports.