I don’t understand not respecting parents decisions unless it’s something objectively wrong. Like today at a 3 yo birthday party every kid drinking juice boxes, someone’s kid I just met says “I want some juice” say lets ask your mommy. Mom says no. We don’t buy juice boxes but aren’t strict but I respect that Moms decision. On the flip we’ve let our friends know on several occasions we cut grapes in half. My wife knows of someone semi close whose kid choked and died on grape. It’s a known danger for kids. Couple weeks ago I cut the grapes in half for our kid and theirs. No less than 5 mins later kids want more and they hand our kid full grapes cause they don’t see it as an issue. Like come the fuck on man.
Wife talking about work: *bitches about people getting tons of menu modifications* Wife out to eat: "I wonder if I can make a ton of modifications to this menu item"
I thought after COVID people would be more understanding of taking caution around sickness. Hell, if my daughter gets a cold we would still have to keep her out of daycare until she had a negative test so avoiding the inconvenience of multiple days with no childcare would be reason enough to not see sister until the virus has passed.
Probably the most amazing fact in the situation that I failed to mention earlier was that my pregnant wife is not vaccinated. She got pregnant right as the vaccine started becoming available to our age bracket, and I completely understand her not wanting to get vaccinated while pregnant. We’re by no means anti-vax, she’s more worried about side effects from second shot (it fucked me up pretty good and scared her). My family is of the mind that my niece could never potentially get Covid somehow, and would obviously never have her tested even though she’s been sick for days now. Covid or not, it’s not like any sane husband is going to throw their pregnant wife into a bath of germs
100% agree to steer clear. I don’t want to sound like I’m telling you/her what to do but a vaccination to your wife while pregnant would give some immunity to the baby as well. It will also do that if she gets it while breast feeding, though in lesser amounts. I’m sure your wife talked to her OB about the decision, but if not it’s probably worth having the conversation. My wife breast fed a couple extra months just to ensure she was still breast feeding when she got the vaccine. Granted, we also have a baby with a compromised respiratory system so we were far more worried about him getting it than anyone else in the house.
Wife got vaccinated in month 4 of her pregnancy. The hope is it provides some immunity for the baby. Our OB also recommended it. I’m also limiting interaction from some of my family bc they don’t want to get vaccinated bc they’re being dumb.
My sister's going to get knocked up at some point this year, her OB told her to avoid the vaccine because of it. I want to firebomb the doctor's office.
Me: *suggests any number of evening activities* Wife: “no, I just don’t think we’ll have time to do that tonight” Wife: *talks on the phone with her mother for an hour* Wife: *in a bad mood cuz she “never gets out of the house”
Me and my wife got into a discussion about how much she talks to her sister while stuff has to be done. Her sister drags her down mentally. She actually listened to me and is now much happier focusing on our family first but now her sister is mad at me because they don’t talk as much and blames me.
My girlfriend will complain about being home all the time and how she’s depressed because of it, but then there’s so many times I recommend something simple like going to grab food or a drink, she’ll be like “I don’t feel like getting ready”. Drives me nuts sometimes because then I’m the one stuck at home too. Her parents live 2.5 hours away and for awhile they were coming to visit a ton, and when they do they just drive around the city with no plan going to stores they can’t in their small town. I finally had to tell her, my idea of fun isn’t being dragged around on errands for a full Saturday and it’s annoying that’s the only thing that gets us out of the house. Obviously, I was being mean and hate her family.
And don't you dare either A.) Make plans with your guy friends without her or B.) Suggest to her to contact her friends for a girl's night. Also, the hating the family will never change. Just FYI if you want to marry this chick one day. Wait until they have grandbabies to deal with.
I will give her credit she’s usually pretty cool about me doing my own thing, it’s just easier said than done these days as more friends have kids. The funny thing about her family is I don’t mind them, so the “you hate my family” comments make me laugh. Her mom and sister are fine for about 15 minutes but they’re the type that have an opinion on everything and have to comment on the dumbest stuff, but don’t know how the world works. Her dads actually a cool guy, I always say “I bet you’re dad would like to come by himself so he can do stuff he wants you should ask”, but surprise surprise she doesn’t do that.
One day she (her sister) was complaining about stuff being shutdown and the economy (she doesn’t work in finance) then later on mentioned how she had her dad do her taxes because she couldn’t figure out Turbo Tax. I couldn’t resist, so I trolled her saying I was shocked an economist couldn’t do it themselves.
Had a funny one today. We live in Jax, and there are geese everywhere. We drive past a neighbors today that has a small cow farm kinda in the middle of our suburb. Driving past their little field where the cows normally are was a small flock of Canadian Geese. He had just seen about 10-15 in our neighborhood. Mrs Fofo: “Why would Jerry buy geese to hangout with his cows?”
Lol at this being you with your gf. Marriage is really going to suck. Going out or staying home will always be the wrong decision. Even if they enjoy it at the time.
Wife woke up this morning as I am walking out of the bedroom and says "can we go out on the lake today?" I'm like hell yea We live 100 yards from the water She gets up drinks coffee and all. Then starts doing laundry, etc. Eventually she is asleep and I have put the boat in the water. Spent my afternoon talking to the local lake bum while my wife was asleep at the house But whatever
So you took the boat out without the wife while she did laundry? Take it to the awesome stuff my wife does bub
We painted all of our bedroom furniture a new color today, and now at 815 on a Sunday night she’s decided we need to paint an accent wall in our bedroom. She just left to go buy paint. Excited to see how this goes for her and my night in the guest room
i am always amazed at the number of clothes she seems to need every year for different reasons but I am staying clear of the battles I have no chance of winning so I ignore this one.
My gf’s brother came down here to visit with his son. He wanted his son to keep practicing his piano so he wanted to rent one for the week. So he found an electronic one and had my gf rent it then got our friend to pick it up in a converted RV. I had to get it out of the back with no ramp. Weighed like 300 lbs. So anyway it’s been sitting here three weeks because we don’t have anyway to get it back without just hiring piano men to come get it. The kid played less than an hour on it all week and to top things off, I already had a $1,000 keyboard and production software but with 24 less keys; that wasn’t good enough for him.
In a way that's kinda on you for renting that shit for him instead of making him rent it and deal with it.
I didn’t know anything about it until he was telling me to help him get it off the back of the RV. I thought he just purchased a used electronic piano for cheap that the owner was trying to move out. By the time I heard the real story they were flying out the next day.
Just for clarification: 1. Your gf paid for the rental 2. Gf arranged transport through pulling a favor of a friend 3. Kid barely used it. 4. You're stuck figuring out how to return it (I'm assuming a penalty accrues if not returned by a certain date?). Yea, her brother would be getting daily venmo requests from me for the amount of rental plus the moving company hired to return it. And that kid should have been taking requests the whole weekend for that amount of procurement effort.
That’s about it but it’s stuck on my gf to get it returned. If she wants to rent a uhaul truck with a ramp then I’ll obviously will put it in the truck but that’s the extent of my help because of the ridiculousness of her family requests (this is somewhat common but not to this extent). The brother isn’t going to pay for anything because that is just how he is.
When I rent a hotel room, I always pay for a baby grand to be wheeled in in case I want to compose. Not really but I've heard rock stars can do this at high end hotels
I'm so perplexed about renting a piano without any logistical plan to return it, and then just holding onto it like it's a library book