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What "adorable" behavior prompted you to start blogging about Mark's annoyingness?"I started the blog primarily as a joke. I was messing around with the iWeb feature on my Mac and trying to figure out how to use it. The first thing that popped into my head was 'My Husband Is Annoying' because it's true!
"It cracked me and my husband up, and so I decided to start the blog.
"The other reason was that I've noticed that once somebody gets married, the first thing everybody always asks is, 'How's married life?' with the expectation that the answer will always be 'Great!' Well, sometimes it's not great; sometimes it's annoying."
He seems to take very well to the ribbing. Does he get you back?
"My husband is incredibly good-natured about it all. He doesn't really get me back except for the fact that he thinks he can be extra annoying because he's giving me more material for the blog. I always tell him that I have plenty of material already and he doesn't need to give me anymore!"
Have you gotten any negative feedback? As in, you've only been married a few months, how can you say that about your pwecious love bug? (barf)
"Yes, I have gotten tons of people who are shocked that I, a supposedly blissful newlywed, would dare to write such a blog. They always say, 'But you've only been married for a few months!' and then express concern over the state of my marriage.
"It seems as if people feel like married couples need to earn the right to complain about one another when, in fact, the whole marriage transition can be a really tough one. The blog allows me to vent and is sort of therapeutic, especially when I get so many people who can relate to my stories and then share their own."
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Friday 21 August
By happy single guy
gere, you got a good education by getting laid off and watching those shows. i was a consultant for many years and worked from home often. i'd have the tv on in the background and sometimes i'd land on those talk shows and i couldn't believe the hatred of men that emanated from them. it's what keeps them going as a matter of fact. evening tv is just as bad, and the commercials always make men out to be bastards and idiots.
it's true: our society is completely anti-male and women are the source this, obviously. they are fed this toxic propaganda by the media, special interest groups, and the educational system. they are spoon fed it 24/7. if you just look at this website there are two negative articles about men: "the worst boyfriends in tv and movies" and "tell us about the worst guy you ever dated". i'm sure there's a lot more if i took the time to peruse it.
the 21st century will be known as the "end of marriage". and it is the fault of the feminists. everyone knows who is to blame, but no women have the guts to say it because:
1) it will result in them having to admit they have been totally wrong and they are to blame for the current disastrous state of male/female relationships, which is too much for them to bear;
and
2) it would mean that much of the feminist infrastructure that has been built up over the past 40 years will have to come down.
neither of the above will happen, and so we are left with the "end of marriage" because men are not putting up with the feminist infrastructure anymore.
so long america, it was good to know ya!
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Friday 21 August
By Lori
Hey, happy single guy! I'm with you - I HATE the feminist movement! I am 43 and still remember my 6th grade teacher demanding to be called MS Robins - not Miss or Mrs. I don't even know if she was married or not, but I remember that being my first encounter with a feminist and I didn't like it. I still don't. Then you have those women who get married and keep their name? What is up with that?? I am married 20 years and I remember the days before that when my boyfriend would open doors for me, pay for all of the dates and bowl me over with flowers and gifts. He's my husband now and does not open doors anymore unless he's going through it first and I've gotten pots, containers and a vacuum for gifts (all returned except for the containers) and I buy my own flowers.
I will teach my 3 sons to do everything my husband did before we were married - and make sure they remember to keep doing it even after they tie the knot! At least he still pays for dinner.
Friday 21 August
By unknownannms1
What gives this bitch a right to complain??? Keep complaining and he'll leave. If you're not giving him what he want's in the bedroom, eventually he'll cheat on you(even just to spite you for being such a bitch in public)
She's probably alway's yelling at him. Who made the women the Boss??? We should go back to the old days when men went to work and woman took care of the kids and house. It's what natural for both sexes. I'm not saying a "housewife" doesn't work hard. I know if you put a value on a "housewife" it's six figures. Guy's have gotten "too wimpy" with childcare and household chores. Let the guys take care of the yard and cars. Also, today's boy's are becoming too wimpy because of the sexless roles they assume.
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Friday 21 August
By angelmunky
It seems that many of you didn't read the article, in it's entirety. To recap, they're newlyweds. She blogs about the things her husband does that annoy her. He views and approves (or vetoes) her posts. To THEM, it's comical.
With that being said, everyone is annoying to someone. We are imperfect. There are many adjustments to make when co-habitating with anyone. This does NOT mean a couple cannot persevere through their differences. It means that both parties have to make a conscious effort. Yes, it's work, but it's also very rewarding. I've found someone who can put up with me, and I love putting up with him. :)
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Friday 21 August
By Keith
Chances are they are both left wing loons. You know those male liberals are spineless wimps. She wears the pants in the family and he is subservient to her. End of story!
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Friday 21 August
By Marcie
Totally impossible.....I HAVE THE MOST ANNOYING HUSBAND ON THE PLANET....for 16 years he has asked me the same questions...."Do you take applesauce wIth your pork chops". "I'm making Pasta Fagiola tonight, would you like some". NO-NO-&-NO.
He tells the same stories OVER & OVER again, to me & to anyone else who is within ear-shot....REPEATS himself OVER & OVER again....talks out loud to himself & laughs out loud about nothing !!!!!!!!!!!
While vacationing in Mexico, he asked me if we could change the language on the TV !!!!!! DAH
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Friday 21 August
By kate
I love it! I have been married over 20 years and recognize that my husband has some very odd characteristics, but that is exactly what endears him to me. And I also have some that he tolerates. Thank God he is as imperfect as me and he is also totally adorable. To all you naysayers, screw off. It takes a lot of hard work and choosing to love another human being to make something as difficult as marriage to work. Happy Single Guy, you sound like a self absorbed selfish jerk and thank God you don't want to get married because I'd feel sorry for that poor woman. These two are funny and obviously care about each other. Again you naysayers, go get a life.
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Friday 21 August
By happy single guy
hey kate,
i'm not self -absorbed, just realistic as to what you feminists have done to the american male and to this country. don't try to deny it. it's time for you and your kind to shut the hell up. you have been wrong about everything. and you can't admit it. (as i said in a prior posting, women today are constantly perpetrating personal attacks on men, just like you have by calling me self-absorbed.. thank you for proving my claim).
any male that signs a marriage contract is a fool. why? because he is entering into a legal relationship in which he has no rights. there is no argument against that. i have seen it with my own eyes. and there a zillion stories that support my assertion. the balance of power in a marriage is 99% for women and 1% for men. and women know this. and that's why they want to get married so badly. because it gives them incredible authority and power over men and the security that comes with it, not to mention the psychological and emotional benefits of having that power and security.
remember, the feminists speak with forked tongue: they talk about "equality" to men but "empowerment" to women. and that's what they have achieved: an incredibly distorted amount of power (educational, financial, societal, familial, and judicial) which has ushered in the demise of heteorsexual relationships and the institution of marriage. and because of this disparity in power, men are droppping out, just like i have. you would too if you were a man. only a male fool would voluntarily sign a legal contract that effectively makes him a slave.
guess what? i'm not going to get screwed (not literally) by the feminist infrastructure. going forward, most guys won't either. as i said, the 21st century will be the end of marriage and will usher in a dark age for america and western societies. just look across the pond to the UK, where feminism has neutered men into sissies. no one gets married there and women are vicious towards their hapless, sissifed counterparts. and the same is happening here, and that will continue.
you blew it. face the facts. it's over for you.
happy single guy
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Saturday 22 August
By Shannon
Wow---who pissed in YOUR Wheaties today??? I suppose you feel that women were better off when they had NO RIGHTS whatsoever under the Constitution. Once a woman married, all of her property, both what she had coming into the marriage and what she might inheirt after the marriage automatically belonged to her husband. She had no recourse if her husband beat and abused her and her children. Women had no legal recourse if her husband raped her, or if she were raped by a stranger, she was blamed, even if the attack happened in her OWN home! Women didn't have the right to vote until 1920. Very few women could get any education past elementary school becuase it was felt that women were not strong or smart enough to learn more than to read a little and write her name. Most married women spent their adult lives either pregnant or trying to recover after childbirth, because to use any form of birth control was against the law. Even after some forms of birth control became legal, if a woman wanted to be surgically sterilized, she had to have her husband's permission to do so.
It is only in the last 30 years or so that women in this country were paid equally for the same work as a man, although there are still people who pay women less, because "They don't have families to support", as one employer told me. At the time, I was a single mother of 3, struggling to get by working two jobs.
You can't tell me that women are the cause of the death of heterosexual relationships. I firmly believe that every person has the right to love whom he or she wishes, and if there are more homosexual relationships coming into the light it's only due to most people being able to let go of long-held prejudices, rather than a "distorted amount of power" held by women.
I feel sorry for you. It must be lonely and unfulfilling living in YOUR world.
Saturday 22 August
By happy single guy
Shannon,
you didn't understand a word I said.
that's why our civilization has entered the end of marriage...you feminists don't listen. just accept what i've said and get over it. i have, and all i'm doing is informing you mutants of where you took all of us....purgatory.
i'm not lonely at all; trust me. but i can tell you this, and you can take it to the bank: going forward, there will be a nation of lonely, depressed, anti-psychotic drug-addicted women (did i hit a nerve with a lot of you already?) who will be totally messed up for the rest of their lives because they will NEVER get married, NEVER have children, and NEVER have solid heterosexual relationships for the reasons i've already stated...basically, to sum it up for you: because women have all the power now and men won't put up with it anymore.
go back and read what i said, and do it with comprehension this time. hopefully someday you will begin to understand how you built the infrastructure that destroyed America and western civilization (the feminists in the 60's, 70's and 80's used the nicer term called "deconstruction"). that is what the feminists wanted from the very beginning -- just read the drivel and hateful books and commentaries you based your movement on (Dworkin, Faludi, McKinnon, etc.). -- and that's what we've got now. a deconstructed society that pitted women against men, and blew away the family unit. that's your legacy and i'm calling you on it. don't shoot me, i'm just the messenger.
you made the bed for American women and now all of you will sleep in it. have fun with your future lesbian relationships, since that's what you will be forced to have due to the lack of available men going forward. why is this? well, men won't enter into a voluntary contract (marriage) that ends up in their enslavement to the absolute power of women gained through the legal, societal, educational, and business infrastructure created by the feminists.
it is time for you feminists to shut up and go away. more importantly, it is time for the non-feminists women to take on the people (you) who promised them a wonderful life - based, however, on a distorted, lesbian-driven, and historically false ideology - but ended up being their executioners.
Happy Single Guy
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Saturday 22 August
By Shannon
Dan,
Men like you are why women don't listen to what you have to say. We're tired of being treated as though we don't have the brain-power to understand when we are being put down and our opinions are given no merit.
I still say that you are a lonely, frustrated man who may or may not have been married at one time, and for sur you don't have children, because no women would willingly carry your seed to fruition. I, on the other hand, am very happily married, with three grown children and one grandchild. I am not now nor have I ever been on anti-psychotic drugs, nor do I know many women who are. On the other hand, I personally know several men who do take such things.
As for women having all the power-no. Men are still running this world, and in my opinion (which you will denegrate) they have done a piss-poor job of it. Because of the decisions of men, this world is in desparte trouble. We're running out of fossil fuels, food, fresh air, fresh water, all of the resources which sustain us. Because of men, there are people starving to death when there is food being donated all around the world. Because on man's greed, children will starve and our future generations will languish in hunger and ignorance.
It is past time for men who think as you do to go away. The time when you could force women down under your thumbs is coming to an end, as we are no longer going to accept our children being starved, being denied education, being made to fight wars that MEN start, and most of all we are sick unto death of the status quo. Men like you are afraid of women, because we can and do carry life within our bodies, and sooner or later, we will evolve to the point where we don't need you. Go away.
Sunday 23 August
By Ski
I would hope that the Husband can turn it off every so often. There is nothing worse than someone that thinks they are funny.
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Monday 24 August
By Happy Single Guy
Shannon,
Based on your last note....I rest my case.
I'm sure most women reading your hate speech now will agree with me, if they ever had a doubt as to what I wrote here on Lemondrop.
Another victory for my side. You couldn't have given it to us in any better way.
May your husband and children survive your cruelty.
Happy Single Guy
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Saturday 29 August
By Terri
Good Grief people~ Half or more of comics write about family members which is damn funny! Whats life without humor. And if u cant laugh about what bothers you, well, then, there would be more unhappy people in the world! Stop jumping to conclusions and enjoy the humor she finds in ordinary life, hell, its what kept my husband and I together for 31 years, our fun with each other. Yeah, we get mad, but later we mostly laugh at each other!
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