My wife married into my Warhammer collection. We have a Warhammer room. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even like Warhammer but has her own painted figurines.
i mean you're an adult, you can buy your own jar and enjoy whatever you like in parallel, why are people like that?
his wife does all the grocery shopping and he refuses to do domestic chores, so her revenge is never buying crunchy peanut butter
yup then it's fully deserved and he's not an adult, he's a manchild
I don't think that's fair as a blanket statement
Funny joke. Boomer go Ha Ha.
"Let me tell you something. I have not controlled a SINGLE financial decision in this house since 1987 and I am PAYING for it. I put a ROOF over this woman's head for 40 YEARS and somehow SHE controls the checkbook. Every week she does the shopping WITHOUT me, like I am not the one whose PENSION is funding the whole OPERATION. I fought for this country and I cannot get a peanut butter with some TEXTURE because apparently BARBARA knows best about EVERYTHING now."
Exactly. It's that tired old stereotype that you either have to have an adversarial relationship with your SO, or let them have their way all the time... Did you not both agree to a partnership!?
I think it's from a time when people(both men and women, but mostly women) married for social and economic reasons. Those reasons kept people in relationships who had long since checked out.
Now it resonates with fewer people because women can leave bad relationships more easily.
That's also why I assume the manisphere is a thing because there are a lot of sour people who are upset they are not owed a person just for existing.
“We couldn’t possibly buy two jars of peanut butter.”
Someone I listen to loves peanut butter but his partner is allergic, so he doesn't have peanut butter anymore. I know the stakes are higher, but it's more valid to match the solution. This post feels almost like intentionally suffering to make yourself a Martyr when the solution is very simple.
My dad likes crunchy peanut butter, and my mom likes smooth. I grew up in a two peanut butter jar household. Despite decades of that, they are still married today.
why not just buy your own peanut butter?
My wife likes Skippy, I like Jif.
We keep a jar of each around and use each other's in a pinch.
I do love the Warhammer comparison though. My wife and I have a D&D collection. She does not play D&D. Her part of the collection is the Lego D&D minifigs.
We do that, similar situation and 2 different peanut butters. Also if your SO likes something why not buy it for them.
I hate people like this because they're just miserable on purpose.
My partner doesn't like Marmite and I do. Solution, I buy Marmite and she doesn't eat it.
Just buy the peanut butter you like, as well.
2 jars of peanut butter? In this economy?
I do the shopping, i buy her smooth and me crunchy. How is that difficult? Love does not require suffering.
Yeah some decisions require picking one or the other. A $4 jar of peanut butter doesn't seem like one of those things.
A healthy relatinship is also one where both partners understand, respects and upholds the other's right to have personal preferences and enjoy them.
The most basic show of respect here would be to have two separate jars of peanut butter, so both can enjoy their favorite.
Most people have pleasure when seeing their loved ones having pleasure themselves. It shows affection and care for the other and is a basic show of empathy.
It's a good post for the laughs but it is a depressing admission for a relationship that long.
What are the consequences of the dude buying a separate peanut butter jar for him? Divorce? Accusations of lying and being unfaithful by thought?
If you’re going to get a divorce over peanut butter, you might be better off alone. But that’s just my political opinion.
One time, while on dispatch for a client, I was stuck on the phone with their ISP. Behind me were all of the company interns, arguing about peanut butter.
It’s always stuck with me for two reasons. 1: One guy was arguing that crunchy peanut butter was like regular peanut butter, but with added wasps. 2: I regret every day that I did not ask the Comcast guy to weigh in over the phone.
crunchy peanut butter was like regular peanut butter, but with added wasps.
I have so many questions about what that guy thought peanut butter is, and what it's made of.
He was probably confusing peanut butter with figs.
I think he really just didn’t like the texture. I can’t see the reasoning still, but I’ll admit at the time, his argument swayed me.
My son likes creamy, husband likes crunchy, so I stock both?
Husband did give up sour cream, but If he wanted it so bad, hes get it himself or ask me. I dont like blue cheese, yet we always have it in the house.
This is dumb.
Yeah, feels kinda like boomer energy. Gave up something unecessary to prove his love in a way that was never asked for, probably resents her for it or pulls that out as a talisman any time she brings up something she does care about because marriage isn't about partnership; it's a constant power struggle.
Can you not just buy... two jars of peanut butter?
They are still working on emptying the 80 gallon drum of smooth peanut butter they got at their wedding.
That settles it. The straights are absolutely not OK. I need no other evidence.
Wife bad. Haha.
Peak comedy
My mother likes Scott brand toilet paper. My father likes Charmin. My father installed a second spool holder next to the toilet. One is loaded with Scott, the other with Charmin. They'll celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary this year.
If "we like different brands/styles of household consumable goods" isn't a solvable problem, if you solve it by buying one of each kind so everybody gets what they want, and your partner goes to un-solve it...unpartner them, because they're unfit.
Smooth peanut butter if you like crunchy is just a minor disappointment. Crunchy if you like smooth is like eating gravel paste.
I've been married 17 years. I like wearing swimming trunks, and my wife likes wearing bikinis. I haven't worn trunks in 17 years.
Maybe you should do the shopping then someday.
This is very stupid.
My spouse was diagnosed later in life with a severe gluten intolerance. She went from enjoying beer and soft pretzels to being told “never again if you don’t want to shit yourself in public”
We have a simple rule. Bog standard gluten stuff is fine for me to have, sandwich bread, cereal, etc.
They told me that it was just very upsetting if I was enjoying some delicious gluten treat that they could no longer have.
I love my spouse, so I don’t eat delicious gluten treats in front of them because it would make them upset. Instead I figured out how to make lots of gluten free treats we can both enjoy together. Sometimes I miss the ease of getting a Popeyes chicken sandwich (I still can as long as I don’t eat it right in front of them) but I’ve learned to make gluten free fried chicken we can both enjoy.
Maybe other people would think this is silly, but the person I love is worth it to me.
It's already been said, but yeah just get both? I've been married over 20 years, and I'm vegan while my wife is omnivore. Hasn't been a big problem.
i get the bullshit of the joke. but many relationships aren't about compromise, they are about who wins and who loses. and once you start losing you stay down, been in one of those. 5 suicide attempt later and I still get PTSD attacks.
A relationship shouldn't be like that. If your partner makes you feel like this, leave them.
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