I love my husband dearly...

@reinydawn (11643)
United States
January 4, 2009 10:47am CST
But, sometimes he just does the silliest things. We were gone all day yesterday and it didn't look like my son brought the mail in. I asked my husband this morning if he'd brought it in when he was out there raking up leaves. He said it was something from a real estate place, just junk mail. So I asked if he'd brought it in (he has this horrible habit of not answering my question, just telling me something else) and he said no, that he left it in the box since it was just junk. And he was SERIOUS! He checked the mail and left it there. I guess I'll go get it later and make sure it IS junk - he's tried to throw out checks before because he thought they were junk. Of course I'll actually bring it into the house and most likely throw it out. Men, aren't they the greatest!
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• United States
5 Jan 09
Silly men. When my husband keeps mail for later for taxes the keeps the envelope and all the crap that came in the letter. Now why do we need the outside envelope and all the crap that goes in the envelope?
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Your husband must be one of our clients! They all do that!! We have to open the envelopes for most of them too... But I tell ya, I'd rather have it that when than they not get it to us at all.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
That's what I do too, and get rid of the rest of that crap that they send you in the envelope!!! Too much paper for my tastes.
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• United States
5 Jan 09
When I pay a bill I write on the bill it's self when I paid it and how much I paid it for. then I put it in my stack for when I need it later.
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@Mocha09 (71)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Believe me I know how you feel...My man is the same way, it's best that we just don't bother asking them to do things we clearly know we will handle accordingly...And it wouldn't have killed him to just bring it in...
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
It's just another "I gotta just shake my head" kinda thing...
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Hey reiny! That is a dangerous thing to do! It might have been something important! I have learned to open up even the junkiest of junk mail just in case! I'd rather be sure and throw it out then throw it out and have it be something that I might have needed to see! Yes, some men are that way! It is kind of cute in a way, but it also can be kind of annoying sometimes too! But, at least he was raking the leaves so that was something!
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
I open everything all the time too - except when that big scare was going on around 9/11 with mail and all... I remember one time my husband got the mail and put it on the table. I asked if it was anything good and he said it was all junk. Well, there were 2 or 3 checks in there, about $85 total. Two checks were from my internet stuff and one was a rebate. None of them were marked with a return address that made them look any different than junk - probably so that no one would take it knowing it was a check.
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@missybear (11391)
• United States
4 Jan 09
At least yours goes outside and rakes leaves mine only goes out when I say lets go play some nickels, otherwise he just stays home.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
My husband is definitely an outdoors guy. He's always doing something in the yard!
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• Philippines
4 Jan 09
I do too love my husband next to God of course. I can't even think of losing him. I dont know what my life would be without him. never.... that it would become normal again without him with me. But he does thing that made me gone the madest person in all the earth. Sometimes if we are in really...really stupid arguments.... I sometimes wished we never met at all. hahahha. which is silly to think now. What my husband would do is asked me question over and over again... I think over ten times or more than that if I dont yell at him to stop. But still.... yes, he would stop for a moment then continue again... with different startegy of questioning but the same topic still. He drives me crazy when he does that.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
I think there will always be something that drives us batty with our spouses.
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• Philippines
4 Jan 09
Men certainly are the greatest :) Your husband seems to be a good guy. Absent-mindedness is common habit most people have but I'm sure he's not doing it on purpose just to annoy you. The greatest thing about life is our ability to accept the limitations of others and love them just the same. This you have proven. God bless you in your marriage, may you have more happy years to come with your husband :)
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
He's a great guy - even with all his quirks :)
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• United States
5 Jan 09
I love my husband very much but he does silly things. We have been married for 36 years as of this past August. He does the things that men do that women have been fighting against for many years. I gave that up a long time ago. He would bring mail in and if it had my name on it he would throw it away. Espeically catalogs. When I mentioned to him to stop throwing my catalogs away he asked me why. They were no good. I mentioned to him that just because I got a catalog didn't mean I was going to order from it. I just liked to look at the nice things in it. After awhile he quit throwing them away. I still don't know why he quit throwing them away but I sure was happy he did. Men---you gotta love them. There are other things but I just pick my battles and a lot of things that he does and I don't understand aren't worth saying anything about.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Congrats - belated... You are so right about picking the battles. Some are just not worth it. I just shake my head at him a lot sometimes...
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
5 Jan 09
Aren't they the greatest? Imperfections and all? Hahahahaha...
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
5 Jan 09
So true!
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@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Last night, my husband was sitting on the couch, I was on the computer. All of a sudden this loud noise starts, it was the smoke alarm. I jumped up and ran into the kitchen, there was no smoke. My husband never left the couch, and asked me if it was the smoke alarm. I am yelling at him to check it out, he slowly gets up, strolls into the bedroom, where the alarming was screaming, and looked up at it. I yelling at him to make it stop, he finally quiets the alarm. I told him, if it was a real fire, he would have gotten burned up, because of his slow reaction. Men, aren't they the greatest!
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Good thing you made him go check, just in case! Sometimes they need us to nudge them a bit.
@suzzy3 (8341)
6 Jan 09
I know what you mean.My husband had this habit of not opening any mail with his name on it and I would say open that,and he would say in a minute two days later it was still there,then the phone would ring with someone asking why he had not replied to their letter or a bill was late so in the end I started opening his mail.He was very angry to start with but once I showed him a few final reminders ect he realised I was right to sort the mail out myself.No sense of urgency,we had the money in the bank to cover all the things that needed paying anyway,I panicked at first and asked him if our financial situation was ok,so he just said yes,like I said no sense of urgency,our mail comes through our front door as we don't have mail boxes in England thank goodness as the post would have rotted.He does a responsible job,he drives an HGV lorry around god love him.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
7 Jan 09
My husband would rather throw it out than open it if he doesn't recognize who it's from. There are a few things that he would have thrown away that were important! I make sure I check everything so that he doesn't miss anything important.