The True Tale of the Nagging Wife that Can Never Be Pleased
“Elmo, did you take out the trash?”
“No…I’ll do it later.”
(Three hours later)
“Elmo, did you take out the trash like I asked you to?...They are coming to pick it up this afternoon.”
“I’ll do it later, I’m watching the World Cup.”
(Two hours later…she starts taking the trash out herself.)
“I told you I would do that…”
“You always say that Elmo, but you never do it when I ask, it would have taken you five minutes to get the damned bag and take it outside… it’s like when you told me we would go to Spain on our anniversary and we didn’t go….like you said that you would paint the garage doors on your vacation and you didn’t…like you said that you would never cheat on me and then you spent the night with that skanky barmaid, Wandalfa…like you said we would share all the household expenses and I end up making half what you make, but still end up paying half of all the bills…”
“You are a stupid cow,Lurella . You are always a nag. Wandalfa didn’t nag me ”
“You were with her for_ two hours_…had you given her three you would have called her a nag too.”
Nagging? A blanket word that usually covers a series of events where a person has been asked repeatedly to do something….remember a birthday…remember to brush his teeth before lovemaking…wash the car…take out the trash….help children with schoolwork…and the man has repeatedly not pitched in to help or has been so self-involved that the woman has done the brunt of the work. At times, the neglect of household requests is done on purpose——simply as a power play and then to “be right” about having someone nag. Nagging is often just a repeated request to a partner that goes ignored.
What’s the real story? What’s really going on here? Who is in charge? What is the power play going on?
You need to get to the bottom line: Am I pulling my weight in this relationship? Or does my partner have a real gripe with me? And you know what? Both parties have to be honest enough to ask themselves these questions.
Despite the fact that women have been “liberated” or so it is said (I think that’s a myth)...they still are required to do the majority of housework, work outside the home and raise children.
No wonder women are exhausted.