Originally Posted by ribbons

*** Googles brown chicken brown cow ***

Uh-huh, something like that (thank you, Urban Dictionary). In other words, you're trying to tell us to "Get a couch!".

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

My judgement is definitely coloured by my view of heterosexual relationships, and of course people will drift apart, but the fact that these nagging wife/mancaveman dynamics emerge is a gender role issue. And if you can't work it out and have that particular attitude towards each other (like the typical case of woman pestering man and complaining to her friends, man escaping and making sexist jokes about his wife/women in general at the bar) I think you should start questioning how much you had to offer each other in the first place.

Or for example Allen Ginsberg whining about how women chain you up and inhibit you in Howl. If men can be companions while you have your adventures and endeavours without stopping you, why not women? You're just picking someone incompatible because you're looking for someone to do your laundry.

Originally Posted by Plankton

Or a room, yes.

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

I did that weird thing where I married someone that I actually like being around, but she also respects that I have my own hobbies that are separate from her and vise versa

I would bet that most of the time anyone that complains that their SO is “nagging” them is probably the problem themselves because they’re being too emotionally distant or just straight up neglecting important needs in the relationship. Which could come down to societally influenced gender roles but more likely it could just be because one or both of the people in the relationship are sacks of ****.

Originally Posted by jwb

I find it interesting that you have such strong opinions on heterosexual relationships specifically, since presumably you have very little experience in that regard.

Also, you did say you related to the patrice bit I posted... Exactly how did you relate? You said you're more like a man so you relate but now you day heterosexual relationships are stunted by gender roles... Yet the extent to which you relate is the extent to which those gender roles also creep into same sex relationships.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

I grew up in a family of women and that's mainly how I relate to it, but sure.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Are you a fan of those new-fangled outdoor couches then? I always prefer a couch to be in a room, so much more private. And warm. And legal.

Originally Posted by jwb

as in how you relate to the comedy bit i posted? So the women in your family reminded you to one extent or another of the girlfriend in said comedy bit?

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.