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[Kosmo]

The dumbest part is where she actually believes she is being a "Cool Newlywed Wife" by giving him one highly unlikely scenario in which he could have escaped her own domineering directive, the date of which is entirely arbitrary (i.e., it's just 365 days after the day that was most convienent last year).

Why on God's Green Earth would it be so important to utilize that exact day to go out to dinner, as opposed to just doing it the night before?

It's not - which is why this marriage is doomed to fail. She values petty things like a date on the calendar, when they could just as easily celebrate their first year together on February 4th. But, oh, she gets up at 6:30 to let the dog out, so all is good!

Actually, something just occurred to me.

Why can't they cook a nice dinner together at home and then watch the game together?

That way everyone wins.

Because some women want THEIR "time." This woman is going to relish looking at every other woman she sees out tonight and give her that look like "Yeah, that's right, I told my man what WE are doing on Super Bowl Sunday...and he's a fucking sports photographer!"

 

[akira28]

She can be an even cooler wife if they move the anniversary, after this, to Saturday, and if he never ever forgets it. Then all is well with the world.

 

[MechDX]

My gf knows I would kill her, before I would give up watching the super bowl.

 

[brucewaynegretzky]

http://i.imgur.com/vurVA.jpg[IMG]

Played in the NHL for 8 years, is a nice guy but fucking sucks at being an analyst.[/QUOTE]

Ummm yeah, but that's not what I'm saying. Not every player is a good analyst, but most of the best analysts WERE players. The reason is because having played adds something very important to the analysis.

 

[Quick]

She makes it sound like she deliberately planned her wedding date to fuck with her husband, and not the good kind of fuck.

While I'm not really that attached to the NFL, that's kind of not cool. But at the same time, dude's gotta man up on this one since this is his anniversary and he agreed to it, grudgingly or otherwise.

 

[Kinyou]

Why not just go out earlier!?!? I still don't get why they can't do BOTH!? This girl makes no sense other than "I want to celebrate my anniversary." I get that. I really do. But why the hell does it have to be EXACTLY as she wants to? She's given up almost nothing and gotten almost everything she wants.

Not to mention that half his thoughts will be unintentionally with the Super Bowl during dinner. If they did it a day earlier or later he could giver her all his attention.

 

[Amakusa]

Maybe one year she'll buy super bowl tickets and they'll go to the live game.

either way, sucks being him.

 

[notworksafe]

Actually, something just occurred to me.

Why can't they cook a nice dinner together at home and then watch the game together?

That way everyone wins.

That would be a compromise, which is lady is clearly not interested in.

I don't think you understand. SHE WALKS THE DOG! Her husband should bow to her every whim.

 

[eznark]

I can't wait for the follow up "Why I divorced my controlling harpy of an ex-wife" post. Wonder if Huffington will publish it.

 

[Circle Jerk]

She can be an even cooler wife if they move the anniversary, after this, to Saturday, and if he never ever forgets it. Then all is well with the world.

uh you know the aniversary next year would be a tuesday right? Not every aniversary they have will be on the superbowl or during superbowl weekend.

 

[Lebron]

She's nuttier than squirrel shit.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Ummm yeah, but that's not what I'm saying. Not every player is a good analyst, but most of the best analysts WERE players. The reason is because having played adds something very important to the analysis.

Have to disagree. Really the only ex-players NFL-wise I think add to the broadcast is Troy Aikmen and Chris Collinsworth.

I mean, Jaws, Jon Gruden, Moose, Goose? Please.

 

[Circle Jerk]

Why not just go out earlier!?!? I still don't get why they can't do BOTH!? This girl makes no sense other than "I want to celebrate my anniversary." I get that. I really do. But why the hell does it have to be EXACTLY as she wants to? She's given up almost nothing and gotten almost everything she wants.

Well they are watching the first half of the game. does that make it comepletly okay? No, but the whole "she gave up nothing and got everything" is just... wrong.

 

[Mr. Sam]

Josh has been a freelance photographer for Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine and has actually been on the field for a Super Bowl, so I understood that this was a big deal for him.

Well, you seem to have grasped why--

And yet I wasn't going to let a football game -- even the football game -- get in the way.

Oh. OK. Still seems you could have scheduled your dinner for another time than smack dab in the middle of the game, but yeah, whatever.

 

[PBY]

Well they are watching the first half of the game. does that make it comepletly okay? No, but the whole "she gave up nothing and got everything" is just... wrong.

She really didn't give up anything because they're still going to dinner at the exact time she wanted it.

 

[brucewaynegretzky]

Well they are watching the first half of the game. does that make it comepletly okay? No, but the whole "she gave up nothing and got everything" is just... wrong.

I said "almost" nothing. She gets her entire anniversary "scenario," dinner out with her husband at some place in her leather dress or whatever. He gets almost none of his image of watching the superbowl with buddies.

 

[eznark]

She really didn't give up anything because they're still going to dinner at the exact time she wanted it.

It's a "you know who wears the pants you cuckolded wimp" move on the wifes part, nothing more nothing less.

 

[nVidiot_Whore]

The main topic is dumb.. it's just a game.. and when an anniversary is celebrated also shouldn't be important, but:

Josh and I both agree that marriage is about compromise and wanting to make each other happy

I can't stand when people say things like this.

You will always have to make compromises, but if your entire marriage "is about compromise" you have fucking failed to pick a good mate.

lol

 

[LordCanti]

Have to disagree. Really the only ex-players NFL-wise I think add to the broadcast is Troy Aikmen and Chris Collinsworth.

I mean, Jaws, Jon Gruden, Moose, Goose? Please.

I agree with you, except for Goose. I like him as a sideline reporter, and he's infinitely better than the other reporters they have that feel the need to ask absurd questions "how do you feel about this 28-0 halftime blowout?" and that have to look up at the players like they are mountains.

 

[freenudemacusers]

I'm still stuck on the leather dress part. Ew.

and the idea that marriage is built on compromise is so fucked i don't even know where to start. Really, I give this a few more years.

 

[Cubsfan23]

his mind will just be on the game the whole time

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

That would be grounds for a divorce. I already had a previous gf who went out of her way to make plans on football Sundays. The Super Bowl? You'd have to be outside your mind.

The writer is seemingly completely oblivious that there are tons of normal women who love sports and football, and watch it just as religiously as men. Ask one of these Patriots fans around here out on a date on Super Bowl Sunday and you'd get a foot up your ass. My gf is horrified enough that I have to be at work early today.

 

[DarkKyo]

First year in and she's already bitching about him watching sports?

I foresee a long and happy marriage.

That would be grounds for a divorce. I already had a previous gf who went out of her way to make plans on football Sundays. The Super Bowl? You'd have to be outside your mind.

The writer is seemingly completely oblivious that there are tons of normal women who love sports and football, and watch it just as religiously as men. Ask one of these Patriots fans around here out on a date on Super Bowl Sunday and you'd get a foot up your ass. My gf is horrified enough that I have to be at work early today.

Cause the game is so fucking sacred that no asshole man can miss it for the world!
Fuck significant others and friends, I have to watch men tumble.

 

[tranciful]

"Just ask Kim Kardashian"

Huh?

"(Gwyneth Paltrow agrees too, as we learned this week.)"

Wat?

 

[wormstrangler]

God damn, it's just a wedding anniversary.

 

[acheron_xl]

Crawling to the internet to brag about bringing her husband to heel is worse than the actual act itself.

 

[Htown]

An anniversary is 24 hours long.

She's intentionally putting the celebration during the Super Bowl, because she knows it's important to him, and she wants to make a point.

It's manipulative.

Also, associating your anniversary with a power play that shows you care less about what's important to your spouse than showing them that you hold the leash, does not bode well for the future.

 

[Ace 8095]

He chose to marry the bitch.

 

[PBY]

The other thing is this- If she wants her husband to actively hate their anniversary and not have fond memories if it all then shes doing a good job. Shes so deluded if she thinks her dress is gonna change that.

 

[brucewaynegretzky]

He chose to marry the bitch.

Funnily enough this is probably a crude version of the best argument. He knew damn well she was a shallow, celebrity following, obsessed with formalities type of girl. All of us find that unattractive, but apparently he didn't.

 

[Deadly]

Shouldn't the real problem be that the guy basically works along with the sport? You can celebrate your anniversary whenever you want... His mind is going to wander off all the time.

 

[entremet]

"Just ask Kim Kardashian"

Huh?

"(Gwyneth Paltrow agrees too, as we learned this week.)"

Wat?

Paltrow mentioned that she comprises a lot in her marriage this week. I had to google it.

 

[ProfessorMoran]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacey-tavor-merwin/post_2940_b_1254523.html



Umm...what do you guys think about this? I don't understand why she didn't just pick a different day.

Why doesn't she just castrate him while she's at it?

 

[Paches]

I hope her food is cold at the restaurant.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

I'm a pretty big hockey nut, and if my team made it to the Stanley Cup (shaddap NHL GAF), my wife wouldn't be as domineering as this harpy.

It's just a game? Fine. Doesn't mean having the dinner or party before or after make it mean less than the actual day of.

Wife's birthday? If she has to work, we'll do something on the weekend. Our anniversary? If it falls on a weekday, we'll do something on the following or prior weekend.

The fact this 'good wife' was harbouring some secret grudge against his team just to avoid a confrontation speaks volumes. She's a little stuck up self entitled brat that has to have things her way. To those of you defending her, there's gotta be a compromise from BOTH SIDES. I don't see compromise on her side especially when she was secretly rooting for the other team.

 

[InertiaXr]

He chose to marry the bitch.

Ok this guy figured it out there are no problems here, he married her so everything she decides to do he must conform to, mods close this thread please.

Seriously bro it seems like people change quite often when they get married, maybe she wasn't like this beforehand?

 

[eznark]

That would be grounds for a divorce. I already had a previous gf who went out of her way to make plans on football Sundays. The Super Bowl? You'd have to be outside your mind.

The writer is seemingly completely oblivious that there are tons of normal women who love sports and football, and watch it just as religiously as men. Ask one of these Patriots fans around here out on a date on Super Bowl Sunday and you'd get a foot up your ass. My gf is horrified enough that I have to be at work early today.

My wife was in tears when the Brewers schedule came out and opening day fell on our wedding day (I had never missed an opening day in my life, including the four years I was in Boston). It was really too late to change our plans and would have cost us thousands of dollars to change it, but she was more than willing to do it. She ended up putting all kinds of awesome (but understated; table names were stadiums, seat cards were on tickets and the wedding favor was cracker jacks) baseball touches in our wedding. You know why? Because she wants me to be happy. We've never missed an opening day despite it falling on our anniversary and she generally has some sort of awesome game day surprise for me as well.

Lesson: my wife is awesome and this wife is a harpy.

I showed my wife the article just now, her reaction: "what kind of bitch writes that she has her husband on a leash for the world to read?"

 

[Chichikov]

Cause the game is so fucking sacred that no asshole man can miss it for the world!
Fuck significant others and friends, I have to watch men tumble.

This game is very important to many many people.
That doesn't mean it should supersede everything, but for fuck's sake, don't be proud of making your man miserable.

If you think that caring being a sports fan is character flaw, you probably shouldn't marry one.

 

[red13th]

Celebrate it some other fucking day.

 

[brucewaynegretzky]

I'm a pretty big hockey nut, and if my team made it to the Stanley Cup (shaddap NHL GAF), my wife wouldn't be as domineering as this harpy.

It's just a game? Fine. Doesn't mean having the dinner or party before or after make it mean less than the actual day of.

Wife's birthday? If she has to work, we'll do something on the weekend. Our anniversary? If it falls on a weekday, we'll do something on the following or prior weekend.

The fact this 'good wife' was harbouring some secret grudge against his team just to avoid a confrontation speaks volumes. She's a little stuck up self entitled brat that has to have things her way. To those of you defending her, there's gotta be a compromise from BOTH SIDES. I don't see compromise on her side especially when she was secretly rooting for the other team.

Not saying anything.... It's better that way.

 

[Stet]

I'm a pretty big hockey nut, and if my team made it to the Stanley Cup (shaddap NHL GAF), my wife wouldn't be as domineering as this harpy.

It's just a game? Fine. Doesn't mean having the dinner or party before or after make it mean less than the actual day of.

Wife's birthday? If she has to work, we'll do something on the weekend. Our anniversary? If it falls on a weekday, we'll do something on the following or prior weekend.

The fact this 'good wife' was harbouring some secret grudge against his team just to avoid a confrontation speaks volumes. She's a little stuck up self entitled brat that has to have things her way. To those of you defending her, there's gotta be a compromise from BOTH SIDES. I don't see compromise on her side especially when she was secretly rooting for the other team.

His team's not in the Super Bowl though.

 

[mj1108]

I'm guessing they will be divorced long before their 2nd anniversary.

 

[tranciful]

The worst part is she knew the superbowl would conflict in the future and went ahead with it. I'm not into sports myself, but it's just plain fucking common sense that you AVOID conflicts. You also don't ever want to be the partner who is always 'testing' your SO.

"Thanks for giving up the superbowl for me again this year, honey -- aren't you looking forward to doing it again next year?!"

Evil. "But I rub his feet sometimes, I sacrifice too!" lol

Crawling to the internet to brag about bringing her husband to heel is worse than the actual act itself.

It just solidifies my assumption that she thinks he has to constantly prove his commitment to her and she sees this as a test.

 

[Admiral Bone to Pick]

Actually, after reading the article again, I will admit I was wrong. Maybe it was the Kim Kardashian reference. Maybe it was when she actually admitted that she rooted against her husband's favorite team. Or maybe it was when she stated that she specifically wanted the wedding on February 5th when she easily could have had it on, say...February 12th. Okay, fine. She wants to have a winter wedding because Texas is hot enough already. Sounds fair. But last I checked it's still about the same temperature on the 12th of February versus the 5th. I can understand her wanting to have dinner on her anniversary and all but she seemed to have known this would be a problem even before they married. She didn't even compromise back then.

My mistake. I am now on team Super Bowl.

 

[LordCanti]

I hope she's actually going to order a meal. I'm trying to imagine the look on this poor bastards face when she orders a salad and water, and it's not pretty.

 

[AVclub]

From that article, she seems like a person I wouldn't want a relationship with. Mind you, I don't give a shit about the super bowl, or any sports really. I just don't like women who demand that you do things you hate to show them how much you love them.

 

[stolin]

First anniversary gift for her ?

 

[DCX]

My wife is a football fan, follows her own team and we are watching the Super Bowl together. This dude chose wrong.

DCX

 

[acheron_xl]

I showed my wife the article just now, her reaction: "what kind of bitch writes that she has her husband on a leash for the world to read?"

My reaction in a nutshell.

I'm only sligyhtly surprised that it's a HuffPo piece and not on Jezebel or Salon.

 

[AlimNassor]

I'd be pretty hurt and probably end the relation. The Super Bowl is a big deal, it's not just a silly game. Super Bowl would be more important to me then going out to eat if I were this guy(it's not to me, I dont even like football). We could do this anytime. You want it on the same day that's just harsh and a bit selfish.