Um. Ew. I think I may just have become one of those people. You know the ones? The ones who can't do ANYTHING without their significant other? DAMN those people are annoying.
I've had several friends in the past who, when I would invite them out, would bring their husband/partner along. WTF? Seriously. In all of those cases it was always something along the lines of, "Hey, the new Sex & the City movie is out! You wanna go?" It wasn't EXPLICITLY anti-husband, but I think any reasonable person would have read that as "Sally and Hypatia are going to the movies"... not "Sally, and JOE, and Hypatia are going to the movies"
The worst part is that it's always the husband who is an asshat who ends up being the tag-along. I suppose that's because the good husbands know how to read cues and don't just show up to something they're not specifically invited to. But it's always the idiot who would be like, "Hey Hypatia, why can't you find a husband yet? Hey Hypatia, don't you know women belong in the kitchen? Make me a sandwich! Ha ha ha" types who tag-along with their otherwise delightful wives.
(As a side note, how do otherwise delightful women (ok or men) end up saddled with insufferable spouses? I mean, they SEEM reasonable and everything and yet they're somehow COMPLETELY blind to their spouses asshatery.)
So, let me first of all say that Jedi is not in the least an uncouth buffoon who is of the knuckledragging-mouthbreathing- type I described above. He is, however, clingy. Where I am, he wants to be. He even pouts if I don't want to go to the grocery store with him because he can't stand to be apart from me. (Gag. I know.) I've broken him of the pouting at least, but I know his impulse is still there.
This weekend when we went to a WOMEN'S expo I did have to explicitly tell him, "No, you may NOT join us. Sheesh!" Heaven help me if I ever become one of those women.
And yet. Somehow. This evening when I decided I wanted to go to the gym and go swimming and I realized he wouldn't be able to come with me because he has class... I suddenly decided I didn't want to go if he couldn't come with me. Ugh. Eegads, right?
I may have to jump into the cold pool in the deep end just to rid myself of this feeling!
2 comments:
Hmm. I guess I see your point about clinginess being a negative thing (nobody wants to be the person who CANNOT go it alone). But at the same time, I see it as part of growing into an adult relationship. I go lots of places with the husband simply because we don't get a lot of time together (especially post-baby), so we're not going to waste time on a lot of solo stuff when we could be spending that time together.
But when it's something important, like reuniting with old friends, it's pretty much a rule that you don't invite yourself along (mostly because listening to old friends reminiscing gets boring fast, and it's hard for everyone else to make an effort to include you).
I'm sorry if im being the devil's advocate here, but i think it's ADORABLE.
XD.
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