The website www.exrants.com has some interesting…well, rants from people about their exes. This one–Being Single Sucks and So Do Men–caught my eye:
Wanna know what blows? Being single.
More specifically, being a 32 (almost 33) year old divorcee (typing that word makes me want to vomit only slightly less than when I say it), single mom with NO prospects sucks.
As I lay here alone, aside from Peter and Phoebe (the beginnings of my soon to be cat lady collection), now is a good time to remember all of the GOOD things about being single.
In no specific order:
1. I can actually get some decent sleep at night. My ex used to snore so loudly that almost nightly I thought about killing him in his sleep. I’m not even kidding. I used to fantasize about smothering him with his pillow. Yes, it might be a little dramatic, but sleep deprivation at 2 a.m. does crazy things to a woman. Now I want to kill him all of the time
2. No more copious amounts of body hair in the shower.
3. I get Tuesday & Thursday evenings and every other weekend off.
4. I can eat cereal for dinner and don’t hear the bitching that went a little something like this, “If it’s not meat, it’s not dinner”…
Ah, f*** this list. Who am I kidding? Being single sucks.
So what was really the problem in the relationship? A few possibilities:
1) He was (sigh) a man who worked no more hours than his wife did but still expected her to cook and clean.
2) He worked substantially more hours than his wife did (as is often the case), and thus expected her to do more cooking and cleaning than him.
3) Their house was messy and it didn’t bother him but it bothered her a lot. Thus where he saw no issue, she continually saw a crisis. She often asked him, “This house is a disaster–what are we going to do about it?” and he didn’t see a problem.
4) She is temperamental and emotionally immature (witness “almost nightly I thought about killing him in his sleep”).
Or some combination of the four above. Do readers have other possibilities to add to the list?
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“My ex used to snore so loudly that almost nightly I thought about killing him in his sleep. I’m not even kidding.”
Umm she could have actually did this and would most likely have gotten away with it by saying she was abused. It worked for Mary Winkler, so it can work for anyone.
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