There is one thing every married person will
tell you: marriage is hard. Anyone in the midst of that proverbial honeymoon
period may have a hard time believing that, though. Those first few months
after you tie the knot, you truly understand the notion of wedded bliss. But
once life starts to settle in, some inevitable problems crop up for most
couples. We asked married women about the biggest issues in their marriages and
here’s what they had to say:
Money, money, money. We
can barely even talk about it in an objective, budget-discussing sense without
getting all testy and defensive. So much emotional murk tied to money.
It’s kind of cliche, but
he leaves his sh*t everywhere!
He never goes to our
kids’ school activities or plays.
Our marriage has three
people — me, my husband, and his mother.
Tempering our
expectations of one another. Often we will “expect” the other person to do
things in the way that we would have done it, be it showering the kids or
acknowledging a birthday, or having dinner on the table after a particularly
hard day. And when that doesn’t happen, coming back from that disappointment is
hard. But we set ourselves up for it a lot of the time because maybe the other
person didn’t realize you wanted things done in a certain way or maybe our
expectations are unfair and unrealistic.
He doesn’t want any more
kids, but I want just one more. I figured this out a little
too late, but I don’t think we are actually sexually compatible.
We don’t spend enough
alone time with each other. Between work, kids, and house stuff, I feel like I
never see him.
He doesn’t help enough
around the house. It’s like he thinks the dishes miraculously wash themselves.
When I ask him to help out, he says that he’s too tired. Like I’m not!
Too much time together. I have NO breathing
room.
He never tells me what
he is thinking. It’s like talking to a stone wall sometimes.
He snores as loud as a
freight train and won’t do anything about it.
He is obsessed with
sports. He even tried to miss our child’s birthday party because of some
playoff game. I’m like, what’s more important here?
He doesn’t respect my
career goals as much as his own.
He spends way too much
time at strip clubs.
He is Facebook friends
with his ex-girlfriend. Sorry, but that’s not okay.
We never go on dates
anymore. It’s just work, home, work, home. Where’s the excitement in that?
He’s never around.
Sometimes I feel like a single mom.
We never have sex. Like
ever. It’s like we are roommates.
This may sound small,
but it drives me nuts. He NEVER replaces the toilet paper roll. He will even
open a package and use a new roll and just place it on the counter instead of
in the holder. WHY???!!!
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