She definitely deserves kudos for doing so much. It’s too bad her family doesn’t recognize her for it.

A lot of bitterness in this thread exists because men in the same position aren’t praising women for doing a good job. It’s really not fair to the women.

It would be like defending your right to be written up in SI, and I think that is okay if your goal is to force the other middle-aged lap swimmers to improve or quit so as to free up more swim time for younger aged lap swimmers.

I think all men (until proven otherwise) should be treated like small children.

Yeah. If we didn’t want to do it, we wouldn’t do it. The praise does feel good though :)

We give trophies to 7 year olds to encourage them to keep trying. It works.

And I argue wives should be praised for doing something extraordinary. In turn fathers should be praised too. Raising a kid is incredibly hard. Being a mom is bitter work! The work my wife did for the first 7 years (stay at home) was worth approximately $45k a year as childcare, cleaner, cook, and teacher. It’s…

As a special awesome flower, myself, I think you should be a bit more liberal with the praise. He is, as far as I can tell, bucking the trend in being so involved (especially considering how all his relatives had non-involved fathers).

But what if it is delicious?

I have always preferred the company of girls.

Yeah, but I think the maintenance and regular upkeep of an exotic car is more expensive. You can’t walk away from an exotic car without dealing with title and liability, short of claiming someone stole the vehicle (and probably commiting fraud in the process).

You have to decide how much your brain is worth. That’s how it boils down.

No, never mind. That’s just the cat at night.

Make sure she knows she is beautiful and pretty, to the point that when other guys say it the impact is zero? Make it honest so she doesn’t think, “You have to say that!” Let her know that her appearance and her body belongs to her, and convince her because you act respectfully around other women too. Don’t teach her…

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That agnostic thing is probably where he tends to leave the closet door open. He has no belief in the supernatural, of evil spirits and ghosts and monsters. Also, doing half a chore is probably because he’s got less education, and that younger thing? That’s why he leaves a pile of papers around and demands an audience…

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Then you should be on my side to force Walmart to pay for the health care of their workers, better wages to their workers so they don’t need food stamps and rent assistance, and using their profits to make our tax burden lower, instead of higher.

The problem is that there are multiple reports now that Walmart, by underpaying their workers, costs the US (you and me) $2.6b a year in taxes. Given that we pay for most of the taxes (the top 20% pay 60% of taxes), that translates to $1.56b of financial aid we are providing to Walmart. They made $128b in profit last…

Welcome to the crowd! I too started like you.