People invented language out a deep need to complain.......
Lily Tomlin

Another day - Come vent with us!!

Come chat.....let us know what's bothering you today and you can then know you are NOT alone.  At wivesofannoyinghusbands, we love our husbands, but know that there are times you just need to voice your anger and/or resentment. So, sign in and vent. It's free, it's anonymous, and you'll feel so much better knowing you are NOT alone!!
Others will either offer suggestions or just commiserate with you.  Either way, your burden will be made lighter and you'll find yourself more able to "get over" what is upsetting you and not have a major battle with your partner.  That is how my girlfriend and I founded WOAH (wives of annoying husbands).  When we had small children and needed a place to vent.
So, come vent!!  We look forward to sharing experiences with you!!

An oldie but a goodie...

A HAPPY WOMAN

>A woman in her sixties is at home, unclothed, happily jumping on her bed and squealing with delight. Her husband watches her for a while and asks, 
>"Do you have
>any idea how ridiculous you look? What's the matter with you?" 

>The woman continues to bounce on the bed and says, "I don't care what you think. I just came from having a mammogram, and the doctor says that not only am I
healthy, but I have the breasts of an 18 year-old.

>The husband replies, "What did he say about your
>65-year old ass?" 
>
>"Your name never came up," she replied. 

Just a funny thought for the day from Rita Rudner

I love being married.  It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.  ~Rita Rudner

He only adds to my worry.......

It's been awhile, a few weeks without incident.  My husband was actually on pretty good behavior.  But, yesterday, his old ways crept back.  We have a lot going on this week......both our daughter and our son are planning on going away for the weekend.  One to Denver, one to Boston.  Our daughter is going to Denver, it's a matter of the flight, which I always worry about....but, she is going with her boyfriend who we trust and they are going to meet his Dad.  So, the trip has merit and I understand her going.  My son, who is in college, wants to make the 6 hour drive to Boston at night.  This involves driving through NY at high traffic times.  If all goes well, he won't be in Boston until close to midnight.  In time to go to sleep.  (He and his girlfriend, who we also love, are going together to stay at my son's friend's apartment).  They will have Saturday in Boston then need to drive home on Sunday as they have class on Monday morning.  I don't understand how all this driving is worth it for one day...why don't they go when they can stay for a few days?  My son is supposed to be saving for a trip we are taking in June.  I suggested, I offered, to pay for a train for him AND his girlfriend to go to Boston.  This way, I don't have to worry about traffic.  The train would get him in at 8 AM Saturday and he wouldn't have to leave until 3 PM on Sunday.  So, his time in Boston is unaffected.  The costs would be less for him, not more, since I would pay for the trip -  if driving, HE is paying for gas.
I am only saying all of this as background to the reason my husband was ANNOYING last night.  My husband is CHEAP.  He puts his own needs ahead of everyones, thinks of himself first and foremost.  Only after he has mulled around any impact on his life will he allow his brain to wander into thinking about someone else.  We were talking to my son, he had us on speaker phone.  His girlfriend is right next to him. I asked if he had thought about the transportation issue any further.  (Meanwhile, my husband is fuming, internally, that I offered to pay for the train...has been for a few days.)  My son has a huge test this morning and said that he and his girlfriend would talk about it and decide today, after the test.  While talking, my husband, who had to mute his show so we could hear (which annoys him-as if tv is SO freaking important), was getting increasingly testy.  He was sitting on an afghan my Grandmother made and he always tucks it, hard, between the pillow cushions.  My Grandmother passed away over 10 years ago and the afghan is getting worn.  I pulled the afghan out of the cushion so it would not be stressed.  My husband FREAKED out, while we were on the phone.  He angrily slammed the afghan back between the cushions.  I thought he would tear it.  I didn't want to have a fight while on speaker phone so I walked across the room.  He angrily spoke, saying "where are YOU going with the phone?!".....so, I sat down in order to avoid a fight.  After we got off the phone, I left the room.  When he came upstairs he was slamming doors, fake coughing to interrupt my show, sighing LOUDLY, in other words, trying to annoy me and distract me and gain my attention.  When I asked him what was wrong, he started yelling that our son shouldn't go, it was stupid, and it was expensive and we can't afford it right now.  (In other words, he doesn't want to pay for it).  He kept on and on and on and on until I thought my brain would explode.  I am a worrier and that's an understatement.  I was the one to originally say I wasn't happy with the trip but my son is 22 and we can't really do much to stop it.  All I could do was look up ways to make the trip less dangerous.  I don't worry about master card balances like my husband.  My card only has around $400 on it, so what is the big deal?  I use it to spread out payments, but I pay things off.  I would do that with the tickets.  My husband doesn't like that.
So, instead of calmly supporting each other, my husband berated me and unloaded all his insecurities and then went to sleep.  So, there I sat, with my own worries AND his anger ,  Once again he only adds to my troubles.  Oh, how I would love a husband that would support and lend a compassionate hand.
Why are some men so selfish?

Cute quote I found....very true, too!

When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.

Smart quote to keep in mind.....

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. - Abigail Adams  

When to postpone an argument

My two grown children are home this weekend with their significant others.  My husband is acting like a jerk.  My extended family is getting together on Monday and he doesn't want to drive there.  I could start a fight now and ruin the weekend OR postpone it all until tomorrow night.  So, tomorrow night, he better be ready..........more to come......

Thought for the day ~

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.  - Franklin P. Jones

Cute Quote

Harpo, she's a lovely person.  She deserves a good husband.  Marry her before she finds one! - Harpo Marx

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Good Morning!
Hoping there are some additions to wivesofannoyinghusbands today!

My husband is annoying me lately by not annoying me!  Go figure....as soon as I develop this blog, he decides to be supportive, helpful and thoughtful!  How annoying is that?!!!!

Cute joke for the day......

One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby's crib. Silently she watched him.
      
As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, skepticism.
      
Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband.
      
"A penny for your thoughts," she said.
  
 "It's amazing!" he replied. "I just can't see how anybody can make a crib like that for only $46.50."

Company coming.....

Okay, so I'm having a house full of company.  Days of out of town guests for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Days of people taking showers, using towels, walking in and out through the grass, on the floors.  Preparing for the visit, I have bathrooms to clean, shopping to do, preparations to make.  The morning before, 4 hours before all the company is to arrive, I am cooking, vacuuming, dusting......what does he choose to do this morning?......Help? .......vacuum for me?  Clean a toilet?
He decides to clean the foyer closet.....taking EVERYTHING out and making piles, dust is flying, gloves are being paired......it's September!!  Is this necessary right now with all I have to do?  I walk into the foyer and am trying to understand why he chose to do this at this time (the closet has been a mess for years)!  Now, instead of helping me, he is making more of mess!!  I am trying to keep my temper under control.  I guess it is apparent in my glowing, frustrated, tired eyes.......why this?  He is dumbfounded.  He is incredulous.  He is "helping" in his opinion!  He is cleaning!!  I can't deal with it, so I just tell him to be sure EVERYTHING is put away and cleaned up and I go back to chopping onions, washing pots, setting the table.  As I run around, going from room to room, making sure things look okay and everyone will feel welcome, I walk back to the foyer.  He is gone, the closet is clean....but, the floor is covered with pieces of string that came off scarves, with dust.  Foot prints take the dust from the closet to the back of the foyer, continuing on the carpet of the den and out the sliding door to the patio.  Now, I am so beyond aggravated and frustrated.  Onions browning, I run up to the kitchen and turn them off.  I have to sweep the foyer and vacuum the den, once again.  Why?  As I vacuum, I look out back and there he is, napping on the lounge chairs, IPod headphones in his ears.......sound asleep.  Should I scream at him?  Bop him on the foot?
I could shake him, have a battle, but, instead, I shut the vacuum and "release my anger with writing........

I know if I wake him he'll just say he's tired from cleaning, from "helping", which is what he did in his opinion.  He'll just think I am being ungrateful, he'll get angry and then be crabby when the guests arrive.  I don't want him crabby........so, I will go back down and finish sautéing my onions.

Company will be here soon...........smile?!

Quick Laugh of the morning....

How do you keep your husband from reading your e-mail?

Rename the folder "Instruction Manuals."

DVR usage

Okay, so it's the beginning of the fall season and there are a lot of shows I'd love to see but don't have the right availability to watch them when they are aired.  Isn't that why we have a DVR?  My husband has this thing about keeping the DVR under 28% full.  Why?  I have no idea.  But, I fell in love with the HBO series,  In Treatment.  There are episodes on frequently, but each one follows a different patient throughout their therapy sessions.  I love them all and set them up to tape each series.
My husband freaked out, even though I watch them and delete them afterward, right away.  He's so afraid of using the DVR and having it fill up!  I still don't get it.
Well, I only got to watch one of two that were on the DVR yesterday.  I thought I would watch the other today.  I got all settled in early this afternoon and was ready to watch, but it wasn't there!!  There were two new episodes, but the ones from yesterday were gone!
When my husband came home from work, I asked if he had erased the episodes by accident.  He said no.  So then I went on to question why the episodes from yesterday were gone, but there were two from today. He THEN said that he had changed the options to override two for two......!!  Without telling me!!  It's this type of action that drives me and my son and daughter crazy.  He does things to our shows on the DVR without telling us and then acts like it's no big deal.  Meanwhile, if we would erase anything of his, he would have a fit!
After a lot of nonsense, he finally changed it to where I can have up to 4 episodes before they override!  Why does there have to be a limit?!!
This type of thing drives me nuts.  Anyone else out there with a similar issue?
I just had to vent........

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We can handle multiple complaints and various issues as we all share so many!

What is WOAH?

WOAH stands for Wives of Annoying Husbands.

WOAH came into existence about 22 years ago when my friend and I were both "at home" moms.  Our husbands, who are basically really good guys, would, on occasion, drive us CRAZY!!  At these times, we had our code word, WOAH, and we would call each other requesting a WOAH meeting.  Then, we would get together and spew all our frustrations, anger, hurt, disappointment, or whatever the current problem was.  We would be able to just let it all out, without care to what it sounded like, and the knowledge that we both still loved our husbands and respected each others husbands, that fact would not change.
The purpose of this blog is to extend that free venting to all who need or want it.  Your husband may drive you crazy over bills, in-laws, cleaning, work, chores, the kids......whatever!!  Come here and express yourself, you'll see how good you feel afterward.  Then, once that "bad" energy is released, you will be able to return to your normal self, to your husband, your children, in a more relaxed state.  It's therapy without the therapy.
Please note, this blog is not for women who are abused or have other serious problems.....this is for the every day ANNOYING husband......that you know and love.