Of fucking spare me. Are you even serious? Women who live alone for any part of their lives do all of these things. Sheesh.

A real man picks up a crying child and soothes them so you don’t have to put down what you’re doing. A real man comes home from work with groceries, saying “Oh, I noticed this morning that we were low on milk and eggs, so I got some more.” A real man picks up his goddamn shoes and puts them on the shelf, so you don’t…

Really? Because my husband hasn’t done any of these things.

Right, because men fixing a car is totally not a stereotype.

oh my god, the “WE need to do” when what he really means is “Can YOU do this for me?” is such a peeve of mine. I call him on it, but it sounds really bitchy. And, it doesn’t even work. The conversation goes like this:

I’ve done that, and the boyfriend agrees, and then never does it, because he literally cannot *recognize* when he needs to. And that’s why the whole “Oh well go find someone else,” is both trite and untrue. I’m friends with many, many different types of guys, and the inability to recognize when emotional support is…

Mine does that and it makes me want to smother him in his sleep. He also likes to say things like... “Honey we really need to do.....” when what he really means is “Honey I’m buggin you about something I should be handling myself since its my problem and on my mind but I know if I keep doing this and ignoring the…

lol my husband hasn’t put new tires on his car in possibly a decade. I have no idea how they’re not just shreds of rubber. I’m not even sure he knows how to pull a dipstick. And he changed batteries in the smoke detectors ... after I asked him to ... and they’re still sitting on tables in their respective rooms…

How many hours per day do you spend cleaning your furnace filters, buddy?

How about... If your spouse/boyfriend/whatever neglects to do any of the “emotional work,” and you feel that it’s vital he do, then you ask him to do so?

And a little thing I like to call “deliberate incompetence” has a lot to do with it as well, I think. That way, you don’t have to try because you’re “just not good at it.” Bullshit. You won’t get good at anything without trying and practicing.

If you can suggest a way to say “No, you need to find a birthday present for your own sister.” without it sounding like “I don’t care about your stupid sister.”, well, I’m all ears.

In my 40 years of life as a woman who dates men, this has never gone over well. Men don’t see what the problem is, even when you explain it to them. I have not met one man who will do the emotional work when asked, or who doesn’t see it as an annoying request from a dizzy broad. Anger? They have lots of that. Not a…

The whole point of insurance on a UPS package seems ridiculous to me. In what other industry do you have to pay extra money, to ensure that the company is responsible for the service you’re already paying them to complete?

CiTiPaTown prevails.

Please tell me anyone else here has been watching South Park recently. They hit Yelpers real hard recently.

I’ve never rooted for her. Yeah, her parents are shit, but that story only takes you so far. By the time you’re our age, you need to own your fucking actions. I WISH people made excuse after excuse for my 29-year-old ass.

Remember when we were all still rooting for Lindsay? Yeah, I'm glad that's over.

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