Honestly girls, why do we keep attempting to do this?\u00a0\u00a0 I know my husband hates shopping but I still drag him with me when I need to go.\u00a0\u00a0 Of all the wife-lessons I’ve learned, this is one I consistently have trouble with.\u00a0\u00a0 Not that I go shopping all that often of course, but when I do… by god he’s coming with me!<\/p>\n
It always follows the same pattern, we’re both in a fairly good mood going in.\u00a0\u00a0 Within a few minutes his eyes glaze over and I usually end up standing there going “Hey what do you think of this?\u00a0 Hey!\u00a0 Xander, what do you think of this?\u00a0 THIS, What do you think of it?!”.<\/p>\n
I will give him some credit, when I do finally regain his attention he will be honest with me if he doesn’t like something, which often tends to be something I DO like.\u00a0 So I’m left conflicted and wishing I’d just left him in his dream world, where he was probably back in his office playing World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n
As I said, I hate shopping at the best of times, ESPECIALLY clothes shopping.\u00a0\u00a0 After one or two outfits my face starts getting red, after one pair of can’t get up past my hips and thighs pants, I start to sweat.\u00a0\u00a0 This is when I start getting cranky and have no patience for … well, anything.\u00a0\u00a0 I just want to find something that fits and doesn’t look like I’m wearing a mumu and get the hell out of there.<\/p>\n
So, what does it do for my mood when I have a disgruntled husband follow me around?\u00a0 It’s not good, not good at all…<\/p>\n
I’m bitch at him, he sighs.
\nI bitch at him for sighing at me, he says nothing.
\nI have a Jack-from-Will&Grace high pitched moment asking him why he just sits there and says nothing when I’m obviously upset.
\nHe looks bewildered and starts trying to think of the right thing to say, while already forming a Plan B – looking for a place to hide.<\/p>\n
Then we go home, without whatever it was we went there for in the first place.<\/p>\n
So why do I do it?\u00a0 Why do I try to get him to come with me when the safest thing for us both is for me to go alone, get what I want, do it at my own speed and keep my mouth shut because even if I am frustrated I have nobody to bitch at?<\/p>\n
Beats the hell out of me… and I can’t even say I won’t ask him to come with me the next time.\u00a0 Misery loves company I guess!<\/p>\n
Honestly girls, why do we keep attempting to do this?\u00a0\u00a0 I know my husband hates shopping but I still drag him with me when I need to go.\u00a0\u00a0 Of all the wife-lessons I’ve learned, this is one I consistently have trouble with.\u00a0\u00a0 Not that I go shopping all that often of course, but when I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,52],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-randoms","tag-spats","tag-xander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5208,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}