Anyone else deal with this? Eventually I just walk out to car for a while. Then come back in, “ok, ready”? Then another 10 minutes. Probably 45-60 minutes from the time she first said she was ok to go.
Just find an unused bedroom and sneak in a quickie with a friend she’s already said goodbye to early on in the cycle. That’s what I do. I even subtly encourage her to say goodbye to the ones I like early.
The answer is to grab another beer when she says it’s time to go. Just tell her to let you know when you’re heading to the car. I’ve been married 20 years and it took me 15 to figure this out. It’s a win/win.
Sounds like this poster is drinking and driving so wouldn’t follow this fellas advice. Try to find healthy ways to cope with it rather than numbing with booze and drugs OP. Meditation in the car for a bit works.
While we are on the subject why does it take 2+ hours to get ready to go anywhere. And we are always way late.
WTF?
if it takes 2+ hours to get ready, how about getting ready 3-4 hours before we leave instead of 45 minutes?
it’s simple freaking math.
If I even hint at irritation, annoyance over this it becomes a huge crisis and further ruins whatever event we are attending.
Am I the only one?
I can top this.
Packing for a trip is always procrastinated until about 11pm the night before departure, even if the departure involves a 6am flight. "Packing" involves about 2 hours of "does this outfit make me look fat?", followed by "do these shoes look good?", "do you have any room in your bag?", etc, etc... and I end up driving to the airport on one hour of sleep while she sacks out in the passenger seat.
That's how my wife behaves as well. I've concluded it's some kind of weird passive-aggressive control move. If I say around 24 hours before a 9am fight "why not just pack now, spare us the rush and anxiety of packing tomorrow morning?" I will hear "stop nagging me" or "I do things my way" and then at 6am the next day, this crazy rush of activity, the cab/Uber/Lyft ends up waiting in the driveway, going through security and catching the flight become this highly stressed endeavor, and various things needed for the trip aren't packed. Some variations of this have happened 50 times over the last 20 years.
Anyone else deal with this? Eventually I just walk out to car for a while. Then come back in, “ok, ready”? Then another 10 minutes. Probably 45-60 minutes from the time she first said she was ok to go.
What has this post have to do with running? This thread should be deleted too. Letsrun isn't Ann Landers
It's clearly marked as a "Non-running thread". If you want to read only threads that have to do with running, go to the forum index page and click on the box "Running Threads Only." We added that filter in a few years ago but many people don't realize it exists.
What has this post have to do with running? This thread should be deleted too. Letsrun isn't Ann Landers
It's clearly marked as a "Non-running thread". If you want to read only threads that have to do with running, go to the forum index page and click on the box "Running Threads Only." We added that filter in a few years ago but many people don't realize it exists.
Come on, rojo, even you can't be that ignorant. Go to the forum index page and click that box. Tell me what it looks like, is it all running? Have your mods enforce that better
Anyone else deal with this? Eventually I just walk out to car for a while. Then come back in, “ok, ready”? Then another 10 minutes. Probably 45-60 minutes from the time she first said she was ok to go.
Welp, I s'pose it could be worse. At least it isn't a Midwest Goodbye. The short ones are an hour, and the long ones? Well, my buddy Dave visited Milwaukee in '93 for a weekend, and is still here.
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I would like to argue that there are all kinds of wives out there. That women are better adapted to pro-social behavior is also true. It is proven in every human culture on Earth and is also seen in other primate species such as chimps and apes.
So while it is true that women are more social (better at maintaining friendships and networks of relationships), there is also the truth that some women aren't like that. So 80% of us husbands probably share your experiences at parties, but that still leaves 20% (which is millions of American women) who aren't that way.
As for "packing for a flight" and getting ready, women are more likely to care about the process and this might result in procrastination (if it stresses them out) or the opposite, packing early and extensively planning.
My own wife is always packed and ready a day early (and brings EVERYTHING) whereas I just throw my running stuff into a random bag at the last minute (and usually forget something).
My first wife would intentionally make me late for get togethers with friends and family. My Dad was military and being late sucked. Often .5-1 hr late. I eventually just started making up 1 hr early times. She did have the decency of being smoking hot after all that preparation. Occasionally we arrived early. Then when we were at her parents and it was time to GTFO we like never left. It took me a long time to figure out but her Mom was pretty sinister and manipulative boomer guilt mom and would guilt her into staying a long time. So in hindsight I think agreeing to a time commitment would have been better. Her Mom was drunk and would become increasingly difficult to be around.
My new wife does none of this, because I screened for that behavior ahead of time and her parents live out of state.
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