take your friends out on the town for the weekend. explain to them, "sorry my wife is messed in the head. so lets just go out and have a good time."
obviously your woman doesn't want to go.
180 it.
whats the opposite of retroville? getting your friends drunk so they try and hook you up with someone else?
obviously your woman doesn't want to go. agree. validate. go along with. wtf. try something different.
you accomplish more when they are chasing you down for a good time then when they are telling you "I'm so F'ing angry at you. I don't want to work on this M with you and still you make me do things."
Not as elegantly as I would have chosen to phrase it, , but yeah -- I agree with McQueen here.
It's the whole "you can't teach a pig to sing" thing, John. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.