Comments on: Four harmless ways to make him jealous, but still reassure him that you won’t be doing anything silly like really developing your own interests

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Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:44:17 +0000

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By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:34:39 +0000

Poke your man with a pin. It’ll remind him you’re there and that you’re not afraid to take the initiative. Remember not to poke him with a syringe full of bleach!

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:09:46 +0000

This advice is rather successful at insulting women and men alike. Why would I possibly be interested in someone who is manipulating me?

By: Meowser

Meowser — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:34:40 +0000

It’s so nice that they’re paying 12-year-olds to write relationship articles these days. It’s much better money than the crappy $1 an hour I used to get for babysitting!

By: Mighty Ponygirl

Mighty Ponygirl — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:12:45 +0000

And here I’d been wasting my time in that damn statis chamber until the husband got home.

By: Chicklet

Chicklet — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:03:03 +0000

Ack. It’s almost as bad as those “CUAO” Rules Girls boards.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:57:34 +0000

Good lord. The contempt expressed for MEN in that advice is staggering. It might as well say “remember he’s an idiot and treat him accordingly, because it’s obvious he couldn’t just be, say, an adult”.

By: Tapetum

Tapetum — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:56:18 +0000

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor.

I do almost all of these things (except gossip about sports at work, I’m a SAHM). I stay up late because I write and that’s when I write best. I talk to my friends because they’re my friends, and I am three belts higher than my husband in karate because I love karate and do it more. It would never occur to me to do these things to *spice up* our relationship. Our relationship doesn’t particularly need spicing - perhaps because I’m not so completely wrapped up in him, him and only him that I’ve become completely boring?

By: julia

julia — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:12 +0000

This is really sort of staggering - we’re not supposed to actually have friends and interests that make us more well-rounded and interesting to be with, we’re supposed to do all the same stuff as well-rounded, interesting people, but only to get his attention, and then drop it because nobody likes a showoff.

Or, in shorter form, pretend you’re not really fucking boring but make sure he knows you really are.

This thing is a trophy wife’s manifesto.

By: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:59:21 +0000

You know what my husband says when I want to go work on a hobby that bores him to tears, like knitting?

He says, “Have a good time — I’ll see you later.” And then he goes back to doing whatever it is he does on the computer.

Weird, isn’t it? It’s like we’re not playing ridiculous mind games at all, which everyone knows is the cornerstone of all hetero relationships.

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