Boyfriend spoils Olympic ice skating results for super fan wife, she tells him to leave the room: ‘Well tell him NFL winners some time in the future’

The Winter Olympics is testing couples across the world. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been glued to the screen for the last couple of weeks watching the winter Olympics. I mean, it only happens every four years, so you have to enjoy it while it lasts. But not everybody is as into the Olympics …
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29-year-old husband stops cooking for his wife, only cooks for 35-year-old female coworker, doesn’t understand why wife is upset: ‘He said it’s nice to find someone who appreciates his efforts and who puts satisfaction over vanity around her weight’

Cooking is a highly intimate act.  Cooking for someone is an act of love. You know this if you’ve ever had a meal prepared by someone who loves you. It tastes better. It just does. It’s an intimate thing… to make food for someone. It takes time and effort and care in a way that …
Seguir leyendo 29-year-old husband stops cooking for his wife, only cooks for 35-year-old female coworker, doesn’t understand why wife is upset: ‘He said it’s nice to find someone who appreciates his efforts and who puts satisfaction over vanity around her weight’

33-year-old wife wants to get a tattoo commemorating husband’s failed hobby, he shuts her down and storms out of the room: ‘Part of me wants to argue with him and consider getting the tattoo anyway’

Would you get a tattoo that your spouse didn’t approve of? Everyone’s entitled to their own bodily autonomy. You get to decide what goes on your body, full stop. It’s nobody else’s, it’s only yours. That said, tattoos can be a divisive thing. They seem like they’re more popular than ever, and a lot of …
Seguir leyendo 33-year-old wife wants to get a tattoo commemorating husband’s failed hobby, he shuts her down and storms out of the room: ‘Part of me wants to argue with him and consider getting the tattoo anyway’

‘I noticed the change in her forehead again and confronted her…she instantly got defensive’: Husband divorces wife over her use of common cosmetic procedures

If your partner changed the way they look and you didn’t like it… is that grounds for divorce? One thing about humans is that we’re always changing. We tend to look pretty different at different stages of our lives, and no certain stage is more important than another. In the natural course of a human …
Seguir leyendo ‘I noticed the change in her forehead again and confronted her…she instantly got defensive’: Husband divorces wife over her use of common cosmetic procedures

31-year-old musician husband calls out wife for not attending every one of his shows, not buying tickets right when they drop: ‘Of the like 100 shows he’s played in our home state, I’ve gone to 90-95 of them’

Being in a relationship is all about compromise. In order to maintain a healthy relationship, you sometimes have to do things that you don’t want to. Does going to your partner’s office holiday party sound like the most fun thing in the world? Absolutely not. But you realize that the right thing to do is …
Seguir leyendo 31-year-old musician husband calls out wife for not attending every one of his shows, not buying tickets right when they drop: ‘Of the like 100 shows he’s played in our home state, I’ve gone to 90-95 of them’

‘You texted at 5:30pm to say you’d be working late, and she was freaked out by 6:30pm? That’s…not healthy’: Husband doesn’t reply to wife’s text for 1 hour, she flips out and considers calling the authorities

In the words of a disgraced rapper, «Soon as you see the text, reply me.» And some people live by that. Some folks can’t stand to sit on a text. Their wheels will immediately start to spin, and anxiety will creep up their necks. They can’t stand to wait even an hour for a reply. …
Seguir leyendo ‘You texted at 5:30pm to say you’d be working late, and she was freaked out by 6:30pm? That’s…not healthy’: Husband doesn’t reply to wife’s text for 1 hour, she flips out and considers calling the authorities

Burnt-out woman wants to take 1 week-long Hawaii vacation away from spouse, he doesn’t think it’s fair: ‘He gets 1 week paid PTO and he used it as a staycation. He’s not big on travel’

We all need time away from our loved ones now and then. The healthiest relationships know that time away makes everything go a little bit smoother. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and that’s especially true in a long-term relationship. That doesn’t mean you should take breaks from each other all the time, it just …
Seguir leyendo Burnt-out woman wants to take 1 week-long Hawaii vacation away from spouse, he doesn’t think it’s fair: ‘He gets 1 week paid PTO and he used it as a staycation. He’s not big on travel’

Husband books a trip alone without wife and family after they can’t commit to a date, they call him selfish for not including them: ‘I went alone, had a great time, got $500 in free play at the casino, and even won $200 cash’

Planning a group trip is not an easy task. You know this if you’ve ever tried to lead one. As soon as you get more than one person involved in the planning of the vacation, everything starts to get more complicated. Everyone has different lives and jobs that leave them with different availabilities to travel. …
Seguir leyendo Husband books a trip alone without wife and family after they can’t commit to a date, they call him selfish for not including them: ‘I went alone, had a great time, got $500 in free play at the casino, and even won $200 cash’

Wife with in-person job cooks every meal for husband who works from home, he tries to take one of her lunches and she snaps at him: ‘He’s annoyed about being «scolded» like a child but is demonstrably a massive child’

She was taking on way more labor than her husband while working a full-time job. He still lashed out at her. It’s totally up to you and your partner how you split the labor. There is no cut-and-dry way to do it that will make everyone happy. And it doesn’t have to make anyone happy …
Seguir leyendo Wife with in-person job cooks every meal for husband who works from home, he tries to take one of her lunches and she snaps at him: ‘He’s annoyed about being «scolded» like a child but is demonstrably a massive child’

Husband calls out 20-year-old wife for spending $200 on groceries for family meal: ‘We absolutely can not make it to January with the money we currently have’

Everyone has different relationships with money, and everyone has different responses to stress. And unfortunately, those are two things that tend to go hand in hand. Money causes stress, and in a relationship, it’s even more true. If you’re in a partnership and sharing money, you need a good way to deal with that. The …
Seguir leyendo Husband calls out 20-year-old wife for spending $200 on groceries for family meal: ‘We absolutely can not make it to January with the money we currently have’