Valentine Day Special - Something you hate about your spouse or SO

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or something you love :slight_smile:

My wife loves my kids and I unconditionally. She is the sweetest person I know, and is compassionate to everyone. She is a school nurse, but used to work in hospitals and home health care. I can’t imagine anyone being any sweeter to an ailing person or to their family.

If I ever found a child in need of a home and showed up with it - she wouldn’t say a thing about it. She would welcome the child into our home and start showing it love. That’s just the kind of person she is.

She is a fantastic mother to our two children. I’m the fun parent, but she is the one who makes sure they have everything they need for school and get their homework assignments and projects turned in on time. When my daughter was younger, my wife would lay in bed with her before bed time and read to her for an hour.

My son is high functioning autistic. From the time we found out (before age three) she read up on everything she could find about autism. She put my son on a gluten/casein free diet because she had read that it helped. And it did tremendously. It involved a lot of work to find substitutes for many of the foods, but was well worth it as it made a drastic change in his behavior.

She is an excellent cook, and she keeps our house spotless. I never have to worry about having a business meeting here because I know the house will be presentable. She makes the best brownies in the world. What is even better is when she puts them in “Death by chocolate” dessert. Yummmy.

Se loves me and there has never been any doubt in my mind about that. She wants me to be happy and will do just about anything if she thinks it will make me happy.

We got engaged after knowing each other for 6 weeks, 6 months later we were married. We’ve been married for 20 years.

While we are different in some ways, those differences tend to compliment the other person’s weakness.

I started the thread asking people to say what they hate about their spouse. I don’t hate anything about my wife, but I do have one complaint. She uses more toilet paper than anyone I’ve ever met. She will go through a role a day, of the thick, soft, expensive stuff. I think she uses more TP than a 20 triathletes before a race. But, it is a small price to pay.

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On the down side: she doesn’t exist.

On the plus side: she doesn’t exist.

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My son is high functioning autistic.

I hope this doesn’t sidetrack the thread, but have you seen the movie/read about Temple Grandin? Amazing woman.

Carry on.

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Nice testimonial on your wife. My husband has a similar complaint of me. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one.

Again, nice testimonial. Happy Valentines Day!

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my wife is near perfect - but I don’t like her farts - it’s OK if I fart cuz I’m a man and supposed to be crude
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How about something that I’ve never been able to figure out.

Before I started seeing my wife I had the dating success of the unholy spawn of Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I figured the only way I was going to get a woman was to tie her up and take her back to my lair.

I started working with my wife at the beginning of May, by the first week of June we were going out, by the end of July we were living together, first week of September we were engaged, and got married a year later. It will be 26 years ago this year that this happened. She is one of the smartest people I know and is absolutely gorgeous, somehow looks younger now than she did in the 80’s.

From the very beginning she thought I was the shit, while everyone else just wanted to scrape me off their shoes. I’ve just never figured out what she saw in me so different from what every other woman I had come in contact with. If I ask her about it now she just tells me I’m an idiot and that other women were idiots too for not seeing it.

I’m such a different person now and I think she is largely responsible for that. I’ve often said, one of the qualities you should require in a partner is that they make you a better person for having been around them. And with me and my wife that has absolutely the case.

ETA - I generally am not the big of a fan of people. They just piss me off. But I can spend all day every day with her and so little of what she does even comes close to irritating me. And somehow I don’t appear to irritate her all that much and some of my views on life are kind of out there.

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When it comes to things I hate about my spouse it is like those interview questions where they ask you to describe your faults:

She’s too beautiful so people’s heads turn when we’re out, too good with money so I can’t spend anything frivolously (but we are going to pay off our house in 15 years), clean to the point of obsessive and so organized she knows where all the stuff is that I misplace. It’s awful to live with.

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Never even knew women farted until I got married. I thought I was good but I have 30+ years of humble.

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The short answer comes from corny movie lines

“You complete me” (Jerry Maguire?)

“You make me a better person” (not sure-maybe that Christmas movie with Tea Leoni and Nicolas Cage)

We are personality opposites in many ways. In dog terms I am kind of a Labrador Retriever and she is a poodle. I am kind of lax and she is type A. She makes me want to do better in everything to please her. She is always focused and I get off track. She has rules and I have gray areas. Somehow we balance each other out for 30+ years. I have always strived to be a better person to please her and at the same time, I think I have helped her learn to chill a little.

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I started the thread asking people to say what they hate about their spouse. I don’t hate anything about my wife, but I do have one complaint. She uses more toilet paper than anyone I’ve ever met. She will go through a role a day, of the thick, soft, expensive stuff. I think she uses more TP than a 20 triathletes before a race. But, it is a small price to pay.

I think that this is the case with all women. I lived on my own for a month before we got married. I was almost finished the roll of TP at the end of the month. After she moved in we were going through over a roll a week.

I am not sure what she does with all that TP as I seem to get the job done with much less.

Nothing bad to say about my wife though. She is an amazing mother to our child and is pretty much my perfect match. 8 years and going strong.

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My son is high functioning autistic.

I hope this doesn’t sidetrack the thread, but have you seen the movie/read about Temple Grandin? Amazing woman.

Carry on.

Yes. That was a fantastic movie. It was very inspiring.

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Seriously? The TP thing… just think for a minute. You pee standing up, give it a shake or 2, done. She sits down, and has to WIPE - with TP each time she pees. And if it’s that time of the month, forget it. Duh. :wink: Did this really need to be explained to all you dudes?? Just don’t be buying her TP for Valentines Day… ha ha ha!!!

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Just don’t be buying her TP for Valentines Day… ha ha ha!!!

Shit… back to the store for a new gift…

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My only complaint is that she leaves her wet towel on the bed after taking a shower.

Otherwise, she’s great with or finances, puts up with my hobbies, took great care of our children and the house when I had to travel to find work, and is willing to go to Dubai with me later this year.

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My wife’s only fault is her taste in men.

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Seriously? The TP thing… just think for a minute. You pee standing up, give it a shake or 2, done. She sits down, and has to WIPE - with TP each time she pees. And if it’s that time of the month, forget it. Duh. :wink: Did this really need to be explained to all you dudes?? Just don’t be buying her TP for Valentines Day… ha ha ha!!!

Aw come on. She could mummify an elephant with all the toilet paper that she uses in a day. :slight_smile:

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I just wrote three things down and realized they all fall under one category so I am writing that down. She is a terrible estimator. She has no clue how long a trip takes and low balls it, she cannot add very well so her estimation is always off, and if she strays from a recipe she doesn’t stop to think if something seems odd. I love her to death and am asking her to marry me in April but damn woman, sometimes what you say and do make no sense at all!

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“You make me want to be a better man” Jack Nicholson, As Good as it Gets
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ah, thank you
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Well, you helped me with Kauai, so it was the least I could do. :wink: