Are you a nag?

@whywiki (6066)
Canada
April 20, 2007 3:08pm CST
I sometimes find myself nagging at my hubby. I don't mean to nag it just happens. I know when I am doing it because he calls me by my mom's name when I do it. I always swore I would never be like her and then poof one day I was her! Maybe it is just a woman thing or do men nag too? Are you a nag?
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@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
21 Apr 07
I can be at times and usually it is my bf who has to put up with it. I am glad he never called me by my moms name though, coz then I would have just "killed" him *lol* We have a tendensy to say - I will never be like him/her, and then one day we are exactly the same and dont even know when or how that happened *lol*
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21 Apr 07
Yes,I nag sometimes.When I see my husband is wasting time and we have to rush somewhere.But my husband tickles my funny bone.And I joined him to laugh laoudly.
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@krishkorp (427)
• India
21 Apr 07
nobody never likes to nag,it just happens.Even i have so many times get into nagging that even i won't be knowing.Yhen when it gets hyper then i come to know about that and then the restoration work sets in and i try to control my nagging tendencies.Naging usually occurs when a certain discontentment arises but is so subtle we wouldn't have recognised it ourselves.So whenever u start nagging just delve into reasons and find out what actually is troubling you.I hope it helps ,whywiki!
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
20 Apr 07
i sometimes can be a nag. i used to be a lot worse but i saw that it was becoming a problem so i really tried not to. my mom is a nag and she has trouble with change. i find myself heading that way so i try very hard to keep from being that way. i take after my dad alot who is very laid back and i think that is what keeps me from turning into my mother completely. guys nag too though, it isn't just a woman thing.
@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
21 Apr 07
Sometimes specially when he do it over and over again and when I'm already full,to the things that for me is not good. First he will not take some words for me, for the second time I will ignore again but when it comes for the third time will nag him. It is natural for us girls to nag specially when they commited over and over mistakes. Because it means that they are immature and they dont know what is good and bad.
@bruxedo (773)
• France
21 Apr 07
I think that all of us, men and women, are naggers sometimes. It's not easy to live everyday with other persons even if we love them. No one is perfect and when we live a lot of time with others we tend to give more value to those defects. Another important thing is that if we are not happy with our lives, because we had trouble in work, or traffic, or something else the easiest way to unload our problems is to nagging with the nearest persons. I think nagging is normal and even healthy if we can accept it as it is and don't let it grow to anger.
@bruxedo (773)
• France
19 May 07
Thanks for br :)
• United States
21 Apr 07
I do not have a husband, but when it comes to getting work done and things done, yes, I will complain.
@patgalca (18391)
• Orangeville, Ontario
21 Apr 07
I think I am a major nag. I just don't seem to be heard around here. I ask and get no response, no words, no acknowledgement that I even spoke. It's like speaking to walls. I suppose they (husband and two daughters) are tired of hearing the same old thing, but I'm tired of having to SAY the same old thing. I don't think nagging is just a woman thing, but I think our desire not to turn into our mothers and finding that we are IS a woman thing. I think all women think that way, find themselves saying the exact words their mother said to them when they were children. On a humourous side, I find myself becoming a lot like my dad in that respect. I find myself using all his funny lines all the time now since he passed away last year. Nagging is the same as complaining. Guess we should stop, huh?
@lisagayle (393)
• United States
21 Apr 07
I am not a nag, but my husband is. I think he got it from living with his grandmother too long.
@Anakata2007 (1785)
• Canada
21 Apr 07
I'm not a nag, but I just asked my stupid husband and he said that I do nag him about working too much. But I only nag him about working too much because he COMPLAINS so much about how much he has to work, so I give him advice about how he can work less, and he just told me that this feels like nagging. Hmmmm it seems like this discussion opened up a can of worms...lol In answer to your question, I don't think I am a nag. My mom was never a nag either, so maybe we all do take after our moms. My dad was more of a nag actually.
• United States
21 Apr 07
I don't nag because it doesn't any good. I just go about doing what I need to do and sometimes I will ask my husband to help but generally I don't. I found out a long time ago if I nag all he does is turn a deaf ear so I came to the conclussion I am just wasting my breath and energy so I stopped.
@mahmah (436)
• United States
21 Apr 07
I am definitely a nag. I will be the first to tell anyone. I think that is one of the reasons that I am divorced. LOL I have mellowed out the last few years but then again I also haven't been seeing anyone in the last three years. LOL My mother wasn't the nag, believe it or not it was my father nagging everyone. LOL I did pick up my mothers "mental" issues. The extreme anxiety, fear of leaving the house (doesn't quite qualify as agoraphobia because I can force myself to go to work but other than work, forget it). Oh well.
• Philippines
21 Apr 07
Sometimes I nag too. Good thing my husband knows how to deal with it. When I start to nag, he'll find a way to make me laugh, and that's it. I stop nagging but then I always make sure he realize that Im not nagging for no reason. Sometimes people see it as nagging when the real thing is just your just pointing out what wrong somebody has done or my husband has done for one thing.
• Philippines
21 Apr 07
yes and no! :-) i guess,(majority) women nag because they have to or shall we say there is something to nag. base on my experience, at my early years of marriage my hubby and i live with his parents together with his brother and his family. my mother-n-law told my husband y i kept nagging him to find a good job wer n fact we eat 3xaday with the dollar her daughter sent to us( but i just couldn't bear with the situation)while his brother's wife just kept her mouth shut and let my in-laws provide food for us. until my husband and i found a nice job. build our own home.provides food in our table.send our kids to school without asking help from my in laws. on the other hand, my hubby's brother and his family still live with my in laws and still dependent to them. now,i am happy with our situation, i only nag a little, just a little :-)
@amydawn11 (906)
• Canada
20 Apr 07
I am a neg sometimes. My boyfriend gets mad and says "ok mom" I hate that but I can't help it. like when you ask them to fix something, something that needs to be done and two weeks later it is still not done, it gets annoying. It goes two ways, he has said to me "are you gonna get the dishes done soon" like why can't he ever do them, why does it always have to be me.