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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Bullshit
This is bad. So bad that I'm taking a poll. Husbands & go read these 11 secrets all husbands keep. Then report back, if you would, how many apply to you. My score? About 3. #4, for sure, tho I'm always disappointed in myself for it. Big money is the new (old?) big dick. #5, but I don't complain about fixing stuff around the house. #7, easy. #11, I guess, but it's hardly a secret. So 4 and 7, plus .5 for numbers 5 and 11.
(Although I have become a steadily worse car passenger over the last year. It's not just Ms. Hammer. Totaling a Civic has made me quite nervous.)
10 Comments:
DANG the only one that applies to me in #10
By 
, at
2:30 PM
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There were a couple "sort of"s, a couple "oh yeah"s, a couple "no ways" and a bunch of "not really"s.
#1 Of course I was looking at her. I think it's silly to pretend attractive women are not attractive. I would assume the same holds true for wives and attractive men. If you must hide it the proper response is "I guess she's kind of pretty, but way too skinny."
#3 seems kind of dumb for actual adults.
#4 Almost none of my self worth is tied up in making money. I'd happily never work another day in my life if I could get away with. There's just too much interesting stuff to do in life. After a long weekend with my girls in Chicago I found myself asking, "Why would anyone with little kids WANT to have a career?" They often tell me "Daddy, I wish you only had to work one day a week." I agree.
#8 This one pisses me off. String theory is hard to understand, "relationships" and "what women want" are not. And I hate the sports trivia cop out. People want to feel loved, they want to feel important, they want to be listened to. Men and women have different styles but they are mostly after the same things in life. What's hard is doing all the things you know you should do to make others feel the way they would like. And by the way, when your wife wants you to listen to her problems. That's not the same thing as wanting you to solve them for her. She likely can do that as well as you can anyway.
#9 is only true in 1950s sit coms. Now it's just insulting.
#10 Of course I wish I was 25 again. But only if I could know what I know now. Cue The Faces "Oo La La." Still, life WAS a lot simpler then.
Hmm, don't know why that posted twice. I'll remove one.
Mostly nonsense -- either not a secret or not true.
1. Yes, but everybody knows that.
2. Never played a round of golf in my life; nor do I have any other hobbies that keep me away from my family much. I run, but mostly when they're sleeping or on my lunch hour.
3. Nope.
4. Jambo nailed this one.
5. Hammer nailed this one (no, I didn't plan that...)
6. Stupid.
7. OK.
8. Jambo's right again.
9. Dumb.
10. Only as it applies to my weight. In every important way, I'm much, much happier now than I was when I was 25. I don't want to go back there. You can't make me.
11. Yeah, OK.
By 
Joseph Thvedt, at
6:10 PM
How many kids did you have when you were 25 Jambo? 'Cause I find it hard to believe you want to go back to a pre-Jamboette time.
Good point, tho a couple 5 year olds would be easier to keep up with if I was still 25. Maybe it could be like the National Guard and I could be 25 one weekend a month and for two weeks every summer. As long as I don't get called up for a deployment and spend a year in a college dormitory somewhere.
I don't know about you, but I'm a better father at 35 than I would have been at 25. I think. I've known some good fathers at 25.
Actually, I think the bigger difference is that I'm a better husband at 35 than 25. With the stress of parenting, marriage could've been tough at 25.
I think 1,4,5,7,10 and 11 more or less apply to me. Although it's true that none of them are really secrets from my wife. She's fully aware I have all those thoughts.
Of course, that's after almost 8 years of marriage. I will admit that we didn't reach the point where these were all out in the open until a few years into our marriage.
-Swiss
By , at
1:43 PM
I hadn't thought about it but of the ones that are even a little true I don't know that there is much secret about them. The fact that I had a second order of girl Scout cookies delivered to the office? Now that's a secret.
Hammer it's a real trade off. I sure wasn't emotionally ready at 25 to have kids but it sure would be nice to be physically where I was at 25. With both of them closing in on the 50 pound mark I now have to insist on being climbed on one at a time.
