One wacky thing she said! I aked her why she wanted a divorce a while back. She said You took me to this Pizza place too much. IMy mouth must have dropped open when looking at her because she was quick to point out " well there were other reasons" I get a good chuckle some days even know it is sad for many involved.
MLC can make you say WOW! REALLY!
And that is EXACTLY what I advise people to say in those (and some other) situations: Just look at your spouse incredulously, shake your head, pause for effect and say "Wow. Just wow." And walk away.
My wife told her parents that she was leaving me because of two primary marital complaints:
1. "He spends too much time on that damned computer!" Now, this isn't some gaming addiction I have, where I go in a home office on a desktop computer and not spend any time with my wife. On most evenings, we would each sit in our family room at home, on opposite couches about 6 feet away from each other, and I'd do things on my laptop while we often watched a TV show together.
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Im chiming in a little late to the party on this one, but these two posts struck such a chord with me. My W didnt say this to me, but told my father in law that I didnt remove the clothes from the dryer promptly and would often times have to go turn the dryer back on for a while so that when i took them out to fold they wouldnt be wrinkled.
There was something else im trying to remember it and can't come up with it....anyway, the point is her father looked at her after she shared these things with her and told her thats some pretty petty crap your dragging around right there and certainly is no reason to divorce. She got pretty angry and indignant and told him that he just didnt understand.
I really wish I could have been there for that conversation b/c he said she mentioned a couple of trivial things and then the dryer thing and those were her big complaints. Our first conversation after the seperation was actually kind of light and joking (we haven't had one like it since) and during the joking portion of the convo I told her that I turned the switch on the dryer back to buzz so i'd know when the clothes were finished.....problem solved. I actually think that ticked her off a bit, but I was being serious, the only reason that they sat in there at all is that I would lose track of time and wouldnt know when they finished, so buy turning the annoying buzzer thing back on that lets you know when their done it was fixed.
But its amazing to me....WOW is a great word.....as to what they will say are the "problems" when their in the midst of this fog.
