Christmas ideas for our wives

Find a simple local place. Doesn’t have to be a long weekend. Give her a day with a friend at lunch and a nail salon or something. Or a simple massage. And you knock out one of her hated chores for her.

Great idea for the typical woman but introverts don't think the same. We are family together all the time. The last time we didn't have our entire family under the same roof was 2011. Just how she prefers it.
 
My wife is getting a gold with diamonds
Cross nothing extravagant.
But she been struggling with growing older and mortality and turning to her faith more and I think it's something that she'll appreciate.
 
My girlfriend of 15 years and I don't exchange Christmas Gifts. During the year, she buys anything she wants which is clothes and shoes and the only comment I make is how nice they look. I buy what I want which is guns, reloading material and beer. She does make the courtesy compliment if I bring home a nice looking gun. We both have what we want, so no sense in wasting money on gifts. Usually on Christmas Day or the day after, we take off and go somewhere for a few days, eat some good food, have a few drinks and listen to some music at night. It works for us. No surprises and nothing to return because you didn't like it and everybody is happy.
 
Many years ago in the first decade of our marriage, I found myself in the small appliance part of the store looking at steam irons for my wife's Christmas present. It shocked me to realize that I was becoming my Dad ( a very practical man) I left the store and went to the jewelry store and bought a diamond heart necklace the we couldn't afford. She still cherishes it to this day.
We don't do gifts for each other any more but work together on gifts for the grands and great-grands.
 
I'll be spending the most on my wife this year than ever before,... I'm getting her a divorce LOL! Come to think of it though, that's really a gift to myself instead of her.....
 
I'll be spending the most on my wife this year than ever before,... I'm getting her a divorce LOL! Come to think of it though, that's really a gift to myself instead of her.....

Ive got a buddy that wants to leave his wife so bad it's crazy. But she doesn't have a job so he probably can't afford it. I told him that if he's that unhappy there is no amount that's not worth it.
 
I'll be spending the most on my wife this year than ever before,... I'm getting her a divorce LOL! Come to think of it though, that's really a gift to myself instead of her.....

You know why it costs so much to get a divorce? Because it's worth it.

Or so I've heard, from a guy that had been divorced like five times. :eek:
 
You know why it costs so much to get a divorce? Because it's worth it.

Or so I've heard, from a guy that had been divorced like five times. :eek:


Got no sympathy for him. If he didn't learn after the first two times he is on his own. But sometimes it is worse than that. I worked with a guy who was married to the same woman twice. :eek:
 
Got no sympathy for him. If he didn't learn after the first two times he is on his own. But sometimes it is worse than that. I worked with a guy who was married to the same woman twice. :eek:

That happens ALOT. I saw one couple with the same last name on their third marriage. Turns out they were getting married for the third time.
 
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Ive got a buddy that wants to leave his wife so bad it's crazy. But she doesn't have a job so he probably can't afford it. I told him that if he's that unhappy there is no amount that's not worth it.

Best advice I got was, "dude, you just gotta rip it off like a band-aid". You can't put a price on happiness, but it took me leaving to really understand and believe that. Now I'm the happiest I've been since I can't remember.
 
You know why it costs so much to get a divorce? Because it's worth it.

Or so I've heard, from a guy that had been divorced like five times. :eek:

Sounds like he either has a codependency issue, or, he was really good at marrying people wealthier than him so that he could wind up with a nice settlement when they divorced. Which is/was it?
 
Sounds like he either has a codependency issue, or, he was really good at marrying people wealthier than him so that he could wind up with a nice settlement when they divorced. Which is/was it?

No idea, although I'm not sure I agree that those are the only two possible explanations for someone being married many times.
 
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No idea, although I'm not sure I agree that those are the only two possible explanations for someone being married many times.

What I've found with people with multiple marriages in their past is that they are basically helpless and can't do anything (cook, clean, do laundry or shopping) for themselves and need their Mommy to do these things. They can be single for only so long before it gets the best of them so they remarry some poor fool knowing full well that they'll divorce at some point.
 
Through out the year Barbara buys what she wants (not much. I am a lucky man) and I buy what I want. We both use our money. I might catch some shit every week for buying but it is over quickly. We now buy for the kids and grandkids.
 
I told him that if he's that unhappy there is no amount that's not worth it.
I've been telling a couple of friends this for a while. How much misery you're willing to absorb is up to each person, but life is short, so I tell them to get out, and go learn how to be happy! A little short-term sadness as you sort your new life out is better than "the rest of your life" misery! LoL. It worked for me a couple of times, so I know it can be done. Nobody said it's going to be easy.
 
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