MY POINT got lost SOMEWHERE
On Friday, I went slightly mad.
Boyfriend and I were engaged in normal phone conversation.
Suddenly, like some kind of pyrotechnic show, the conversation explodes into a full scale fight. Words were exchanged. Asinine Abuses were hurled.
At one point, I accused him of being a bad dancer with bad hair.
To which he laughed.
And which made me so mad I thought of wrecking his car.
But it was raining.
And besides his stupid car was wrecked anyway.
And I didn’t know the first thing about wrecking cars. I thought of scratching his car but after rummaging through my stuff, I couldn’t figure out what one uses to scratch a car. And besides, the car, technically owned by him, is used solely by me. And it would have looked oh-so-silly to drive around with a scratched car and have to tell people that ‘yeah, I did that to teach boyfriend a lesson’.
I hung up on him instead.
But then had to call him back because I remembered a brilliant point that would show him just how wrong he really was.
He said point didn't show that at all and was obviously stupid. So I hung up again.
I sat down to compose an email to him but after I was done, all it contained were four letter abuses and words that spelled out something about hoping that he gets lice in his armpits.
I send it to him anyway.
A minute later, I logged into his mailbox and deleted it.
And for obvious reasons, I didn’t delete it from trash because if he did see it in his trash he’d know that I care enough to delete it from his inbox but was still angry enough to not delete it from trash. Brilliant!
I spent the rest of the evening mindlessly watching trash TV and resenting boyfriend that I was now watching mindless trash TV.
After trash TV lulled me into dazed stupor, I was able to deconstruct fight:
I want you to WANT to do things. Not for me to have to tell you to do things.
Boyfriend: But after you tell me to do it, I WANT to do it.
But that doesn’t work, because you didn’t think of doing it in the first place and besides after I told you what to do, then you are only wanting to do it because I want you to do it and not because you want it for us.
I do have a point.
21 comments:
friend and i had conversation the other day. i said - sons have this wierd way of giving u a blank stare when you ask them to do something. friend said: yes, it lasts a lifetime. can't blame ur mother-in-law; she must have tried. and after 30 yrs she said, "ok now u try."
still waiting for more on india trip...
Paraphrasing from a friend's poster: "Boys are dumb. Let's throw rocks at them".
Hey mutli-tasking, how come you don't have more posts up? :)
Boys are like that; try to understand them instead of teaching...
love your blog. boyfriends are silly.
I know exactly what you mean. I dated a guy like that once. It drove me absolutely crazy. We also got in a big fight about it. My point was the same as yours and unfortunately all of my four letter abuses were said to his face. BAD fight. It just doesn't make sense to me. You have a personality, wants and needs. Let me know about them.
A concept he didn't quite pick up.
You use keys to scratch a car. Just in case you feel the urge again, hehe...
K.L's response usually is: And when did you do it for me?
M.L.
Hmmm---scratching a car will probably just land you in front of Judge Judy.
Creative ways (although I'm not specifically endorsing them):
There are other ways of insulting him other than accusing him of having bad hair and being a bad dancer.
What works on my husband---"You have some really butt-ugly toes!" For some reason, that really demoralizes him.
It would help if your boyfriend had a third nipple. That would be good for insults.
I knew a nutty woman who used to grind up bugs and serve them to her husband in meatloaf when he was an a$$. I wouldn't do it myself. Did I mention she was a nut?
Invest in an Epilady. Mention multiple times how it yanks the hair out from the roots (you got to know that some woman-loather invented it). Mention how helpless boyfriend might be while sleeping and how vulnerable his short hairs might be.
Or you could be really mundane and just withhold sex. That seems to work quite often. ;-)
speaking of bad habits in partners how is this?? When I speak to mine when he's like reading, surfing watching TV, he keeps his eys on what he's doing and repeats the last three words of all my sentences.... to prove he's listneing.... HOW PATHETIC IS THAT.. and i cannot convince him that that is not acceptable... why not.. sweets.. i'll talk to you in a min... I am really really understanding. I can deal with that... not echoes!!
Nikki - OOOh I totally get you. I couldn't ever keep my wants, desires quiet. And I can't imagine how anybody can do that.
M.L. - boyfriend's response has now become "when did you last do it?" too :) And that's when I usually get hysterical because I know, deep down inside, I can't remember when.
attila - *snork* butt-ugly toes. Oh that's priceless. Sadly, boyfriend does not have third nipple. But oooh the Epilady - oooh that's mean but i could threaten him with that .. hee hee
idyllic - boys ARE VERY silly.
oh, silly me. don't you know that boys will ALWAYS be like this?
seriously, don't try to change him, try training him!
Paperback writer has a good point. Men are like puppies in a lot of ways (this is so sad but true). Praise him endlessly when he does something good. Try to distract when doing something bad. It really makes a difference. A grandmother of an old friend of mine told me this. I thought she was crazy. It works. Just stay away from the rolled up newspaper.(grin)
Paperback- am going to keep that in mind. And anon - OH that is so maddening. I hate it when they to pretend to patronise you - "OOoh honey, I am listening"
OMG. I have to show this to my boyfriend. You are so right on. That's my point too! I hate it when I he says, whatever you want to do. argh. why can't you decide for once!
btw -my bf is an Indian too but he was born and raised in the middle east. AND he is from kerala AND a mallu :P AND he is now in USA.
Ok.. I don't know the point of telling you this now :P
OMG, you are a genius! That is exactly the problem with boyfriends/husbands! The only benefit I have got out of this is that I eventually realised that I can tell him what he should wear and he'll want to to.
thats life...
Jinal - Why really can't they just decide for once? Even silly stuff like where to eat. And your BF thing, now thats cool. What would be cooler is if you turned out to be from same country as my BF. haha
b. - I didn't think about the benefits :)
q8 - yup, that is life :(
every time i go to my blog, i feel so incredibly tired - like when i go to a gym - i look at all those machines, sigh and leave! that's why no more in blog.
Ooh multi-tasking - I think I know who you are :)
Me too, though - Just the fact that I have written a to do list has tired me out. What is it about mapping out what to do that makes me think 'wow whee - look at how much I have done so far'?
I'm guessing that men don't want to decide things when with their significant others because they decide a lot of things at work. They want to give it a rest. What they do not realize is that we do a lot of decision making at work too and sometimes we don't want to make a decision.
I'm also guessing that most of our significant others don't want to "step on our toes" in regards to making a decision.
But that's not really the point is it? The point is to have an opinion and to act either on it or not.
Did any of that make sense?
No? Oh, well.:)
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