99% of marriage is sharing stuff you find and 1% asking if they heard you.
you clearly have not met my grandparents with hearing issues. it’s like 50% “HUH?” and another 50% “how do you expect to hear me if you don’t put your hearing aids in??”
But when you take them out your ears are so COMFY and nobody YELLS at you and you can’t hear your husband’s STUPID looping tiktok videos playing from the next room.
Source: hearing aid haver who sometimes takes them out at home or streams podcasts through them and just communicates through pantomime and lipreading despite my husband’s patient exasperation.
you can use hearing aids as normal earphones? :0 that’s so neat!
Yup! They have tons of cool features nowadays. It’s a lot like wearing discreet earbuds with really good noise cancellation capabilities. They cost so fucking much though, and in the US a lot of insurance providers don’t cover them or will only cover a small percentage of the cost.
Sounds wonderful. So far my experience is limited to 25 yrs of cute animal facts and the occasional “are you listening, dear?”
The trick is to have a canned sound to use to respond to something that can be interpreted as that’s good, that’s bad, that’s interesting, etc.
Minecraft villager sounds
“Where is the ……?”
My wife interrupts me, then makes me wait for the video to loop around to the start so she can make me watch it on her phone. Often it doesn’t start correctly, so she has to try again. Invariably, by the time it actually plays for me, it doesn’t live up to the effort that went into showing it.
If I want to share a video with her, I just send her the link via text like a human being. She can watch it when she wants to, or just ignore it.
Yeah, I have a friend that I share a bit of time with and she just sends me the links. I’ll get around to them. I’ve never made her watch a YouTube video on my phone. Honestly, I’m not into YouTube videos as a general rule unless I’m looking at really specific product tests. So I’m definitely not forcing others to look at that.
Tell her to swipe to the next video, then swipe back. That will cause it to restart. Learning this little trick saved my marriage, and my life, because if I had to listen to that stupid fucking music slathered all over every damn video even just 1 more time, I was going to either have a fatal stroke, or go on a murder spree.
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My wife actually agreed to watch the new Naked Gun movie with me and managed to restrain the urge roll her eyes through most of it. That’s how I know I am loved. 🥰
I’m really looking forward to seeing that
It was pretty good. Liam Neeson was a solid choice.
It helps that I already occasionally tripped over both names and landed on the opposite one. Now there is a small chance the sentence will still make sense.
After seeing him in Extras (or was it Life is Short?), I can see him doing the deadpan perfectly.
On the opposite end it’s dogs for some reason.
I want a relationship, but I don’t ever want to live with a dog. Apparently that’s literally impossible if women’s profiles on dating sites can be extrapolated to the general population of women lol
I had an ex where I literally made a rule she could only show me five dog pictures per day.
my wife wanted a dog until we had a kid. I don’t think she’s willing to take on any additional responsibilities at this point.
So… Jeez… I guess my advice is “make a lot of rules and try knocking them up” … But somehow that doesn’t seem like good advice…
My “problem” is that if I know they want/love dogs then I feel like it’s wrong for me to pursue a relationship with them. I wouldn’t want to make them give up something they really want/love just to be with me
(I’m definitely not that special lol)
Probably going to catch hate for this, but I don’t think that should stop you from taking steps towards a first date.
If you’re honest about this (and everything else) then they can make the decision for themselves.
It’s actually kinda uncool to pre-emptively make decisions on behalf of other people, and if I could give my younger self some relationship advice, it’d be that. For me it was rooted in trying to be helpful, but it isn’t. It’s actually kind of offensive. I’d hate it if someone did that to me.
It MIGHT be a deal-breaker for some people, but I don’t think that percentage is actually that high.
Also, not to diminish your feelings about dogs… But I’ve seen it happen even with kids. Two people get together, both dead-set on not having them. Then, they both realized that they just couldn’t see themselves with kids in the context of previous relationships.
Not saying you should count on someone changing their mind, or someone changing yours. You shouldn’t. But… If you’re up front an honest… It’s also worth considering that it’s possible that your own convictions about wanting/not wanting something isn’t as ironclad as you imagine it is.
Go on dates with girls who love dogs. Be honest. Let people make their own decisions. See what happens.
I’m married, have two kids and they are driving the dog adoption. The wife is onboard and I can live with it although I do push back on the suggestion it will make my walks better 🐕🦺
Married 34 years. Can’t say I’ve ever been forced to watch videos on my husband’s phone. Although if he’s splitting a gut, I usually ask if I can watch it. Married doesn’t mean attached at the hip or phone.
What is “splitting a gut”?
Committing sepuku. It’s the wife’s responsibility to stitch a man back up after doing this.
wow can’t even get out of husband stitching duty through seppuku? expectations are so high
Laughing so hard as to cause abdominal cramping
Uncontrollable laughter
Yeah but now I know all about dehumidifiers, what are you bringing to the relationship, Blair?
Desicant dehumidier.
fr, like ok your loss if you don’t want to see this lip reading of a coach absolutely losing it on the game official and how it was pieced together from three different angles
maybe bad example, my ex loved that shit and still sends it to me
My wife only has to watch porno on my phone, this lady is getting ripped off.
If not satire that is definitely not a flex lad
You have much to learn of the world, kid.
bro, it’s great. “Look at the size of that one!” “Damn, can you believe he would do that?!” “WOAH! Look at her do THAT!”
If you have never watched some absurd hentai with your wife, you haven’t lived.
I don’t get it.
She wants to get married, but apparently men constantly show videos on their phones, which she doesn’t want.Is that a thing? Maybe I don’t know enough guys? The only person insisting on showing me videos on their phone is my wife so…
Or maybe she thinks it’s an SO thing. I guess that would make more sense, now I think about it. For sure, my wife is the only person I tolerate this nonsense from.
but what if that video is about a master craftsman transforming an old book into a genuine masterpiece? it’s only 2h 🥺
I love Four Keys! So I’d be able to get out of watching it on your phone by saying I’ve seen the whole series! =D
but have you watched nerdforge book making yet? (makes custom novels to present to the author in this video)
I’m actually reading The Way of Kings right now! XD
that just sounds like a challenge to find something you haven’t seen >:)
God forbid a man initiate a Bid for Connection
I don’t think the gender is the point. The person in the pic is just straight
Then why specifically mention a man’s phone?
I had to watch some shitty videos on my male friends phone, no doubt. But in pales in comparison to the absolute garbage tiktoks that my girlfrieds sent me. Like straight up commercials for dumb product but it’s apparently funny and you have to watch all 28 part to find it really funny.
Oh maybe gender is the point then
Your information is out of date. It’s actually so much worse now: we’ve got bros out here trying to get people to look at their slopgen videos. 😒
I must be a woman because I do not force people to watch YouTube videos 💖💖💖
As someone married to a woman I can tell you that I’ve got a strong data signal that it’s not necessarily your gender keeping you from forcing people to watch videos.
It’s only 37 minutes of technical off-road driving get over it
(sigh) is this it for life? Just a never ending struggle between the biological urge to couple up and a desire to tell absolutely everyone to just fuck off so they’re not disrupting your peace you’re not disrupting their peace.
I’m done. Fuck it. I’m making an exit plan.
You’ve let other people influence you so much that you’re upset by them. Life doesn’t revolve around others; others just appear in it along the way as much as you want them to. Unless you enjoy being upset by people, there’s nothing stopping you from ignoring them
Marry a lady!
Also, pedantry: activate! It’s not an either-or situation – it’s a both situation.
