Sacrilege!!!

[Deleted]

I was looking at this article about how women can do better with marriage (it was a response to an article about how men can do better) and I was going along great until suddenly it said this;

18. Never read advice on the internet from strangers. They probably don’t know you and will make you do stupid crap that will not be applicable or appropriate in your marriage…

Obviously the article is total garbage

[zibazinski]

Yes, because how many times have we said to a poster to go back and read what they posted without emotion, just common sense ruling and see how that sounds? Or if they heard what they are telling us from a friend, how would they react?

[Lizard King]

Never read advice on the internet from strangers.

I wish they'd written 'never follow advice...' - not even reading it seems too high a standard to attain, especially when the injunction against reading advice on the internet is itself internet-sourced advice.

I must admit that I love the fact that the same person who urges us not to follow internet advice also offers the following tips for a happy marriage: give him sex all the time, make yourself pretty for him, and quit bitching. Oh, and make him a sandwich.

[zibazinski]

Works for me!!

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2014 9:05:28 GMT -5 Lizard King said:

 

I must admit that I love the fact that the same person who urges us not to follow internet advice also offers the following tips for a happy marriage: give him sex all the time, make yourself pretty for him, and quit bitching. Oh, and make him a sandwich.

In context I think it was actually good advice. Both articles basically said quit being selfish and self centred and put yourself out for the other person.

[Lizard King]

In context I think it was actually good advice.

Context is key. It's just that, in my head, I imagined it issuing from some husband in the course of a domestic dispute as vindicating his position. Reminiscent of Ron White's doomed attempt to smooth things over with his wife: "darling.... I do believe... if you were to take one of these here Midols... you might be a tiny bit less bitchy."

But of course you're right that putting the other person first, as far as possible, is generally a good idea in any relationship.

ETA: Enabling selfishness in the other partner is probably not a terribly good idea, though, so the balance is very important.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Clearly, the author has never read THESE boards.  

[Lizard King]

Nobody from this board ever made me do stupid crap.

All the stupid crap I've done was entirely my own idea, thank you very much.

[tloonya]

Mar 27, 2014 9:44:32 GMT -5 Lizard King said:

Nobody from this board ever made me do stupid crap.

All the stupid crap I've done was entirely my own idea, thank you very much.

-hug-and so on and so forth...

I don't know if I am not going to follow whats written here - what am I supposed to follow than?

[wyouser]

Its too foggy here today to even be able to see advice, and if you tried to follow any you would just get lost.  (can't you see the headline?...Dude lost trying to follow advice. Search and rescue expands search over three state area)

[tloonya]

Mar 27, 2014 10:17:14 GMT -5 wyouser said:

Its too foggy here today to even be able to see advice, and if you tried to follow any you would just get lost.  (can't you see the headline?...Dude lost trying to follow advice. Search and rescue expands search over three state area)

Go get de-fogger and keep following or you will get lost for sure

[Sum Dum Gai]

I must admit that I love the fact that the same person who urges us not to follow internet advice also offers the following tips for a happy marriage: give him sex all the time, make yourself pretty for him, and quit bitching. Oh, and make him a sandwich.

That all sounds pretty solid to me.  Add don't interrupt during the game and she sounds like the perfect woman.

[tloonya]

Mar 27, 2014 11:11:24 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

I must admit that I love the fact that the same person who urges us not to follow internet advice also offers the following tips for a happy marriage: give him sex all the time, make yourself pretty for him, and quit bitching. Oh, and make him a sandwich.

That all sounds pretty solid to me.  Add don't interrupt during the game and she sounds like the perfect woman.

I would agree except I do not understand how is it working 'give him sex all the time'? When are these people going to work? For a sandwich...

[Lizard King]

I think she did qualify the "sex all the time" with an "if possible." Which, since it isn't, renders the whole thing moot.

[tloonya]

Mar 27, 2014 12:00:13 GMT -5 Lizard King said:

I think she did qualify the "sex all the time" with an "if possible." Which, since it isn't, renders the whole thing moot.

Even with "if possible"  giving him "sex all the time" is kind of too much sex.
...Unless of course 'if possible' means 'when he is able to'...then all this becomes kind of no big deal thing. Right?

[achelois]

I read the article. 

I am single...


                    and staying that way. 

[Deleted]

Who am I going to blame for the stupid crap I do if I stop following anonymous internet advice?

[Virgil Showlion]

Mar 27, 2014 8:55:34 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

I was looking at this article about how women can do better with marriage (it was a response to an article about how men can do better) and I was going along great until suddenly it said this;

18. Never read advice on the internet from strangers. They probably don’t know you and will make you do stupid crap that will not be applicable or appropriate in your marriage…

Obviously the article is total garbage

The article is advice on the internet from strangers.

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2014 9:05:28 GMT -5 Lizard King said:

Never read advice on the internet from strangers.

I wish they'd written 'never follow advice...' - not even reading it seems too high a standard to attain, especially when the injunction against reading advice on the internet is itself internet-sourced advice.

I must admit that I love the fact that the same person who urges us not to follow internet advice also offers the following tips for a happy marriage: give him sex all the time, make yourself pretty for him, and quit bitching. Oh, and make him a sandwich.

I think sandwiches are overrated.  Women can take that one as optional.

[toomuchreality]

Mar 30, 2014 11:19:04 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Mar 27, 2014 8:55:34 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

I was looking at this article about how women can do better with marriage (it was a response to an article about how men can do better) and I was going along great until suddenly it said this;
Obviously the article is total garbage

The article is advice on the internet from strangers.

   I thought the same thing.




I guess that leaves our options open still, huh?