Why I'm Making My Husband Miss The Super Bowl

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If you can't take your wedding anniversary over something you can fucking DVR and watch a few hours later you have some bigger problems to worry about.

And if you demand that you celebrate on one specific date and at a specific time during which an important event is happening that your spouse enjoys quite a bit, then you've got some problems too.

Yes your wife is more important than a Super Bowl. But your husband and the things he cares about should be more important than a celebration on an arbitrary date. I'm not a big sports fan or anything, but thank god I married someone that's willing to make compromises on stupid shit that some people think is important "just because." We've celebrated countless birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and stuff on different days, and we're not losing anything at all because of it.
 
Record it on the DVR holy shit. Wedding anniversary trumps sports people. >>;

Have you ever watched a game off the DVR? Its almost not even worth watching. Are anniversarys so set in stone that having dinner 24 hours earlier so your husband can partake in one of his passions is so unheard of?

Also, the fact that she even says "Im making" my husband do anything just makes it even more obvious that shes the type of girl that I would never be able to get along with.
 
Sounds like he knew this was going to be a conflict from day one and went through with it anyway. He set the precedent and now has to deal with the long term results. That being said, I'll never understand the need to celebrate something on a specific date. A night out last night would mean just as much to anyone with half a brain.
 
The scene with Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting springs to mind.

Completely different. That was to meet his girl for the first time. I understand that.

The problem here is that his sacrifice is bigger than hers. They could more easily celebrate the day before or after than he can enjoy the festivities before or after.

The Super Bowl isnt about the game, it is aout the parties and the food and the friends and the festivities. Laughing at the commercials, booing the stupid Patriots.

You cant do all that the day before or after. She sucks.
 
They'll be divorced in 2 years.

Fixed. No way this lasts. This line gets me -

In Josh's ideal world, we would watch the game while enjoying pizza and beer with our buddies. In mine, we would watch no football and do what many women apparently would prefer to do on Super Bowl Sunday.

This guy's life is all about sports, hell sports is paying the bills in the house. She knew that when they got married but now she doesn't seem too happy about it. I am a sports nut, my wife gets it and we compromise if there is an issue. It isn't her getting her way and I deal with what's left. That is what is happening here.


Why not have the dinner on Saturday? That would have been the real compromise. The way she throws Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow's name in there is bizarre too. Are either supposed to be romantic experts?


Sounds like he knew this was going to be a conflict from day one and went through with it anyway. He set the precedent and now has to deal with the long term results. That being said, I'll never understand the need to celebrate something on a specific date. A night out last night would mean just as much to anyone with half a brain.

That is the issue. But sometimes you go along with stuff just to "get along". But that crap eats up a relationship eventually.
 
The issue is not missing the Superbowl, it's keeping stupid tabs on what each person had to give up and who walked the dog when; this is an extremely unhealthy way to run a relationship.
 
Completely different. That was to meet his girl for the first time. I understand that.

The problem here is that his sacrifice is bigger than hers. They could more easily celebrate the day before or after than he can enjoy the festivities before or after.

The Super Bowl isnt about the game, it is aout the parties and the food and the friends and the festivities. Laughing at the commercials, booing the stupid Patriots.

You cant do all that the day before or after. She sucks.

This post sums it up perfectly. Her justifications of "sacrifices" and her black leather dress are so out of touch.
 
I'm so glad my wife is cool and doesn't write a blog post/article about every stupid decision she makes.

I'm sure that your husband is super stoked he gets to watch you deteriorate in looks over the next few years while he is photographing NFL cheerleaders.
 
Completely different. That was to meet his girl for the first time. I understand that.

The problem here is that his sacrifice is bigger than hers. They could more easily celebrate the day before or after than he can enjoy the festivities before or after.

The Super Bowl isnt about the game, it is aout the parties and the food and the friends and the festivities. Laughing at the commercials, booing the stupid Patriots.

You cant do all that the day before or after. She sucks.

I'm European so I don't really get the Super Bowl. :p
 
It's not about sports people. You're missing the bigger picture here. It's about compromise. It could be about an antique pen convention she's making him miss or something.
 
"before you judge me as a demanding, insensitive wife"

"sweaty bride in a white dress taking pictures outdoors was not an option"
" I understood that this was a big deal for him. And yet I wasn't going to let a football game -- even the football game -- get in the way."
"I then secretly rooted for the other team"

Totally...


Also if you're using celebrities as guides for a good marriage then you're really doing something wrong.
 
A friend of mine who's a manager at our work is a HUGE football fan, and he has to work today. I told him that sucks, and he says, "big deal. It's just a football game."

Plus, they will have the TV on, anyway.
 
Hard to feel bad for him. If you cave on the very first big decision of your marriage, ie in this case what day to get married on, you'll cave on everything else.

It's just a game but it's a big event for most guys in the US. One day he'll try to move dinner from 8pm to 4pm or so...
 
It's their first wedding anniversary, so she has a point.

On the other hand, IF (and that's a big "if") they stay married for the long haul, they both better get used to missing the exact day celebration of their anniversary. Real life does not give a shit about the arbitrary day you picked to perform some ceremony.

You lose absolutely nothing by celebrating on a day when it makes the most sense, and when both parties will be able to focus on each other. Forcing the issue is not going to engender anything but resentment and terrible outings.
 
I'm not a huge football fan myself, but even I understand the significance of watching the Super Bowl live. Reading her article, all I could get from it was ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ITS ALL ABOUT ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME. Just feels like she is proud to be a total bitch to her husband.
 
It's not about sports people. You're missing the bigger picture here. It's about compromise. It could be about an antique pen convention she's making him miss or something.

It is a poor compromise that he will only put up with for so long.

He is going to be fed up with this eventually and she doesnt sound too pleasant to deal with. Problems are in their future.
 
It's not about sports people. You're missing the bigger picture here. It's about compromise. It could be about an antique pen convention she's making him miss or something.

You know what compromise would be? Going out to a nice brunch/lunch date or having dinner the night before. I also love her allowing him to watch the start of the game, like getting teased like that makes it any better.
 
So her "sacrifices" are walking the dog and making his man feel better by massaging him. FUCK HER! talk about firstworldproblems

I am not too big on the whole "romantic dinner or go home" thing either. Can't they go for lunch? Couldn't he give her all day attention up to 8 PM?

There are MANY options and she chose the one with the most conflict possible. She can go fuck herself. And the dude too. Ass bitch

As someone said, it's not the superbowl, it could be Comic-Con or anything her husband was into. So you have a passion huh? teheee, fuck it, you belong to me now

Compromises are just fine but when you start keeping count that's when you have a problem. She very quickly pulled up the "I take out the dog, give foot rubs" line.

This is where I became outraged. And it was all for her self-promotion (before you think I am a bad person, I have done 2 good things for my husband lately he? see?)
 
I'm not married - not even remotely close to it - but I can't imagine falling in love with a woman who doesn't like sports and would give me such a hard time about them.
 
I'm not married - not even remotely close to it - but I can't imagine falling in love with a woman who doesn't like sports and would give me such a hard time about them.

Most reasonable women won't be this big of a douche about it.... She's not even making sense. I don't get why they can't just have an early dinner.
 
I'm sure that your husband is super stoked he gets to watch you deteriorate in looks over the next few years while he is photographing NFL cheerleaders.

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It is a poor compromise that he will only put up with for so long.

He is going to be fed up with this eventually and she doesnt sound too pleasant to deal with. Problems are in their future.

Oh I completely agree. I'm not taking her side at all. It's just the thread started getting side tracked by 'I don't get sports' and 'You can't talk about sports unless you've lived it' posts.
 
how popular is Huff Post? Like... I'm always blown away when a stupid blog post like this has nearly ONE THOUSAND comments after less than a day.
 
I can't say how I would feel about this as a Raiders fan. To me it is just a game though I would definitely want to see them win and watch it live so I'm sure a compromise could be worked out. That said, I don't see the marriage lasting. Football is not that serious.
 
I agree. Mentioning it is the hallmark of a crappy poster.

it's a great phrase because if you use it, you are probably in the 1st world and complain about dumb shit ALL the time, but think you are slick and cool for swooping into a thread that you don't like a claiming "1st World Problems LOL."
 
I guess I'm the only one who thinks she sounds like an unreasonable ball buster. My wife would never attempt any kind of command like that because she isn't an asshole. We would just do it on Saturday because anniversaries have no independent significance and can be rescheduled, but the NFL isn't moving the final game.
 
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