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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:31:00 +0000

If you want your husband to hear you, don’t try to use logic. Logic is a male competitive sport. You had an emotional need to live away from his parents, but tried to appeal to his logical side. That will never work. Always explain emotional needs explicitly, as men will rarely catch on until long after a full fledged spat has broken out.BTW, you might have been better off allowing his mom to nurture you. You shouldn’t see this as regression in any way. In the history of the world it is only a recent phenomenon to flee the nest so completely. It’s an instinctive need for the mother-in-law to provide for her grandchildren (while of course earning some future guilt coupons in the process), and your decision also interfered with Donkey’s emotional needs as well as your mother-in-law’s emotional needs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:52:00 +0000

when a tree falls with no one around to hear it…………..it makes a huge noise. We hear it, we just don’t know what made the noise at the time. the only way we would find out what is was that we heard is to care enough to go looking….. either that or the tree fell on a beaten, dead horse and the noise was softened way too late to start talking about the tree in the woods theory now!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:39:00 +0000

heard

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:16:00 +0000

if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? that’s what i thought

By: The Wife

The Wife — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:16:00 +0000

While it may be true that wives sometimes don’t listen, often when we seem to be beating dead horses (as I was beating The Donkey in this story), it has less to do with whether we are listening and more to do with whether we feel we are being heard.

By: Karlmalone

Karlmalone — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:39:00 +0000

This story goes to show that wives do not listen to husbands. How many times have I agreed with my wife only to find her contintuing to beat a dead horse in debate? ALL THE TIME!

By: Mimi from So. Cal.

Mimi from So. Cal. — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:33:00 +0000

I vote for living on your own ALWAYS if you can. While I have appriciated bunking with family nothing benefits a marrage more than having a place of your own. The wife has her priorities right and of course donkeys always need good prodding. Congratulations on your move! –