When I'm home I feel like Mrs horse is monitoring me all the time

[Alexander's Horse]

Any of you married/long relationship guys had this problem? Do you have a partner who feels it is her role in life to find things for you to do when you are at home? Do you feel like you are being watched?

Any suggestions on how to outwit the surveillance?

Close supervision can sure suck all the fun out of your weekend

[BeBMan]

Well, she may have a good reason

[Skanky Burns]

Sucker.

[Alexander's Horse]

You can laugh now Skanky but I think many women have a nagging harpie lurking deep in their pysch somewhere.

It has something to do with the nesting instinct I suspect.

[JohnT]

Re: When I'm home I feel like Mrs horse is monitoring me all the time

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Any of you married/long relationship guys had this problem? Do you have a partner who feels it is her role in life to find things for you to do when you are at home? Do you feel like you are being watched?

Any suggestions on how to outwit the surveillance?

Close supervision can sure suck all the fun out of your weekend

Laura's a stay-at-home mom. Anything needs doing around the house, I ask "What? Are your arms broken?"

I pretty much let her know that I was not Mr. Fixit a long time ago, way before we were married. I continued the long process of educating her by not doing stuff and hiring out expensive people to do what couldn't be put off anymore. She's kinda got the idea by now.

[rah]

The best defense is a good offense.
Before she can start asking those annoying inquisitive questions, ask her what's she doing, or if she's planning on going out, whatever. Sometimes it keeps them on their heels.

[rah]

Or sarcasm. When asked were you are going on Friday nights. TRY, Hmmmmmmmm I've gone over to my brothers almost every friday since we've been married. Want to bet weekend chores on where I'm going to be tonight?

[Alexander's Horse]

Yes some good ideas here. But it only relates to when I'm home - I can go out as much as I like because when I'm out of course my presence doesn't annoy her

I knew I was on a downward spiral when I lost control of the TV remote

[JohnT]

There's this commercial for Enterprise Rent-a-Car that just drives me crazy:

This woman is buying a bunch of houseplants and gardening crap, and placing all this stuff in the pick-up truck that she was able to rent from the good folks at Enterprise. Near the end of the commercial she makes it home and goes around the back, saying with a nervous chuckle "Looks like your honey-do list just got a lot bigger, honey!"

Laura doesn't understand why that commercial pisses me off so. Imho, it's a stupid commercial because it immediately alienates 1/2 of the population: "Yeah, it's those Enterprise rent-a-car ****s who ruined my weekend when the wife came home with a bunch of gardening ****, making me cancel my tee-time."

Also, I'm not one who likes surprises and having my wife go out, rent a damn pick-up, and fill it full of gardening work for me to do is one damned nasty surprise, one that I will never react well.

[BeBMan]

[SIZE=1] Originally posted by Alexander's Horse

I knew I was on a downward spiral when I lost control of the TV remote

Yeah, signs of the apocalypse

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Yes some good ideas here. But it only relates to when I'm home - I can go out as much as I like because when I'm out of course my presence doesn't annoy her

I knew I was on a downward spiral when I lost control of the TV remote

Well, I've been working at conditioning her for 10 years, a luxury you don't seem to have right about now. Maybe you oughtta just put your foot down!

[Alexander's Horse]

It affects the boys too. I knew we had a problem on the weekend when we got home and saw Mrs Horse's car was not there and those seated in the back of my truck broke into cheering

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
You can laugh now Skanky but I think many women have a nagging harpie lurking deep in their pysch somewhere.

It has something to do with the nesting instinct I suspect.

Undoubtably.

But by not having a woman in my life, I am somewhat immune to this nagging nature.

[JohnT]

If you don't actively resist, you will doom your boys to a lifetime drudgery of "honey-do" lists and missed games 'cause the windows need caulking: they will see your futile resistance and they will assume it is the natural order of things. You must resist, man, you must!

DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN, AH!!!!!!

[Ted Striker]

the only answer is to try and numb the pain with alcohol horse