Does Your Partner Have SMD (Selective Memory Disorder)?

United States
October 26, 2008 11:33am CST
I'm am at my wits end with my hubby. I can sit down, have a conversation with him about a problem, situation or some future plans, and I swear he's listening (he's looking dead at me or at least nodding in acknowledgement), but then about 20min later he swears I never mentioned anything to him about it. If it's a conversation over future plans, when I re-approach him about it days or weeks later he looks at me as if I just grew two heads and says annoyingly that I never tell him anything! What?! Is he serious? We just recently had an argument over a property that we're selling. I set out the terms and conditions before we even agreed to purchase the property, he agreed to the terms now that the term is up he's saying he never agreed to sell to the tenants. There's another situation where I told him about a deal I was doing and he offered to join in on the deal. He now says he doesn't remember this deal or the terms and he wants his money back. I ask him until I'm blue in the face how is it that I ended up with the money from his account if we didn't have a discussion about the deal and he didn't give the money to me. So then he changes his story and now he admits to giving me the money for the deal but still doesn't acknowledge the deal itself. Then there's the little stuff. I can tell him I'm going to the store and he'll call me and ask me where I am, or when I come home he'll ask me where I was. I can tell him that I'm paying for something, and that there's this much money left and he'll turn around and ask me where all the money went! I just don't understand how you can talk to someone and he/she doesn't listen to you...they hear you but they don't HEAR you. It's quite annoying.
3 responses
• United States
26 Oct 08
My husband is like that sometimes and it's very frustrating! Sometimes I wonder if he has a undiagnosed medical condition sometimes. Also my husband fail's to tell me important things I should know sometimes and he get's mad at me and say's " I already told you this last week!" Which he didn't because I have a very good memory and I would of remembered something this important. He "thinks" he told me but in actuality he didn't. I don't know what to tell you because I'm basically going threw the same thing, I just worry that there is some bigger issue at hand like he is losing his memory. I also think that men have this mute button in there head and never really hear because they don't care listen or they pretend they are listening. Which I find pretty rude if this is the case.I sometimes wonder if it's a stress thing also. Sometimes my husband gets so self absorbed and stresses out over things that everything else important he forgets or don't care about because he's stuck inside his own little world.
• United States
26 Oct 08
Oh, yeah! I totally forgot about the fact that he doesn't tell me anything. He actually made birthday invitations for my son and had him pass them out to his classmates and had a whole birthday party planned. I found out the day before the party that I was hosting a birthday party for 10 kids! How can this be? Do they not understand that a woman needs notice to prepare for entertaining company? You can't just invite people over to your home without preparation. He's done that a couple of times. He's even gone so far as to tell me that we're having company when the doorbell rings! His excuse, "Oh, it slipped my mind" or "Oh, didn't I tell you?" Please, if I had a dollar........don't get me wrong, I don't mind if his buddies drop by after tennis or his brother stops by because he's in th neighborhood, that's fine. But he's had colleagues and parents of our son's friends come by without notice. I don't know these people and they don't know me. I don't want them to come into a my home without notice, it may not be suitable for company, worst yet, I may not be suited for company! I can't be expected to wave a magic wand and get my house and my person in order moments after the doorbell rings. Who am I Samantha?
• United States
26 Oct 08
It takes a very strong woman to put up with a man like ours! I have seriously wanted to break up with my man before because of this . My man sounds a lot like your husband. He always forgets to tell me important things until the very last minute and he never hard remembers anything I tell him.A few times we have almost had our utilities cut off because he forgets to go pay the bills and he fails to tell me they are fixing to get turned off. I can sit down and have a very long conversation with him about something important and a week later he can't recall the conversation at all, but once in a blue moon he will sit there and think hard for 5-10 minutes, then he goes " oh yeah, I think I remember when you said that!"..I think these men are in there own little fantasy world. Does your husband watch a lot of T.V. or read a lot of fantasy novels?.. That part about how he forgot to tell you about the birthday party he arranged and didn't tell you about until the day before made me cringe because that hits so close to home to me as well.. Oh boy,I could go on forever about him, I have stories!..LOL
@taripres (1499)
• United States
26 Oct 08
LOL...he's still doing that! Maybe he's going through Dementia or Alzheimer's haha?! Or he just don't want to listen, u know do his own thing; then again he may be a drama king, men can be like that cha know? But once we and/or u getcha own thing going, then we'll see who can't remember...lol?! Taripre$
• United States
26 Oct 08
HAHAHA!! I have often asked my husband if he had Alzheimer's or Dementia also,infact I believe his mother is a undiagnosed Dementia patient.. She's nuttier then a 5 year old Christmas fruit cake! My man has this "Selective Memory Disorder also" .. Yeah he can be full of drama sometimes as well, and it's usually over silly things and in the meantime I could be bleeding out the eye's and he don't even notice..LOL
@rainmark (4302)
26 Oct 08
Hello there, my husband is not like that. He always remember every sensitive details.I am the one who has that selective memory disorder lolz. And he feels annoyed of me. Well because of my major operations were the reasons why i got them. Happy posting.