Anonymous wrote:From the snippets I've gathered, it seems like men complain in detail about their wives when they're gearing up for an affair and seeking tacit approval.

LOL sure

I have only one friend who complains about his wife. Libido only. Everything else is praise.
No one else complains. We love our wives and we know how good we have it.

I almost never hear guys complain about their wives, even guys who end up getting divorced. If women think that men sit around complaining about their wives they are totally wrong. We may joke about dumb stuff like overspending or hitting the garage wall with a car but men don’t complain and men don’t want to hang around with complainers. If we want to be with a complainer we just go home!

From the snippets I've gathered, it seems like men complain in detail about their wives when they're gearing up for an affair and seeking tacit approval.

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Anonymous wrote:I have male friends whose wives actually are fat, and I never hear them complain about their wives being fat.

I would rather a fat wife with a high libido than a beautiful wife with a typical wife low libido.

I'd take the thin low libido wife. I can train her to love sex.

It loves the sex or it gets the hose again.

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Anonymous wrote:I have male friends whose wives actually are fat, and I never hear them complain about their wives being fat.

I would rather a fat wife with a high libido than a beautiful wife with a typical wife low libido.

I'd take the thin low libido wife. I can train her to love sex.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is through conversation with your friends? (I ask because that's what the original topic question asked). If so, your friend group has a very different dynamic than mine.

Sounds more like the type of thing that crops up in various subreddits.

NP +1 I have to say that ^^PP's list of topics of conversation is unique. I've never, ever, had anything remotely close to this level of discussion with any of my fellow buddies - either in a group setting (round of golf, getting drinks/dinner) or even in a one-on-one. If any of those points were even relevant in my marriage, all of that stuff is between my wife and I.

Lol...maybe it is unique. I once sat through a twenty minute conversation of a bunch of men complaining that their wives sometimes ask them what they want for dinner (“I don’t know. Food? Hahaha.”)!
I eat lunch at work every day, and these things come up there in a group setting and in one on one private conversation with close friends and relatives. For sure, there is a lot of joking about it, but it’s still complaining.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is through conversation with your friends? (I ask because that's what the original topic question asked). If so, your friend group has a very different dynamic than mine.

Sounds more like the type of thing that crops up in various subreddits.

NP +1 I have to say that ^^PP's list of topics of conversation is unique. I've never, ever, had anything remotely close to this level of discussion with any of my fellow buddies - either in a group setting (round of golf, getting drinks/dinner) or even in a one-on-one. If any of those points were even relevant in my marriage, all of that stuff is between my wife and I.

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Anonymous wrote:I have male friends whose wives actually are fat, and I never hear them complain about their wives being fat.

I would rather a fat wife with a high libido than a beautiful wife with a typical wife low libido.

+ ?. A sexually enthusiastic overweight wife trumps a skinny, low libido wife all day every day.

Anonymous wrote:I have male friends whose wives actually are fat, and I never hear them complain about their wives being fat.

I would rather a fat wife with a high libido than a beautiful wife with a typical wife low libido.

I have male friends whose wives actually are fat, and I never hear them complain about their wives being fat.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is through conversation with your friends? (I ask because that's what the original topic question asked). If so, your friend group has a very different dynamic than mine.

Sounds more like the type of thing that crops up in various subreddits.

Yes. Friends/family/co-workers

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This is through conversation with your friends? (I ask because that's what the original topic question asked). If so, your friend group has a very different dynamic than mine.

Sounds more like the type of thing that crops up in various subreddits.

I thought it was an odd list too. I have lots of close male friends and have never heard a complaint about 1, 4 or 5. 2&3 for sure although like others said, complaining about wives just isn't that common of a topic. Truthfully, men rarely talk about their wives with friends, either positive or negative. Like others said, 90% of the conversation is jokes, sports and how hot the new girl in accounting is.

Anonymous wrote: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.

This is through conversation with your friends? (I ask because that's what the original topic question asked). If so, your friend group has a very different dynamic than mine.

Sounds more like the type of thing that crops up in various subreddits.

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Anonymous wrote:Men, you and your friends complain about your wives, what are the most common complaints?

We don’t and never have. We joke, bitch and moan about marriage in general but not about our actual wives. It’s basic macho, locker room talk and we joke about the crazy stuff that wives do but it’s not complaining it’s just that they do crazy stuff. I adore my wife but she will do crazy stuff which is one reason I adore her.

+1 even when we joke around about "complaining" about marriage in general, we do note how much we love our wives and all the idiosyncrasies they possess (which is part of what makes them attractive to us in the first place).