• SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
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      1 hour ago

      2 things:

      1. It has provoked a lot of great conversation, if you haven’t come back to read it.

      2. I’m approaching 20 years and very much still need my wife to tell me how she’s feeling. My wife appears to be in tune emotionally and often is right, but from my perspective sometimes she seem to be overreaching.

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      12 hours ago

      Unfortunately I’ve very definitely had this problem many times in my life. I really don’t like to assume someone’s interested in me unless it’s far beyond obvious.

      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 hours ago

        but it’s in the context of husband and wife, not even dating. I can understand dating, but married? long term? what?

        damn I think it’s worse now, just boomer humor wife/husband bad. aw damn.

        I get the dating side of the joke.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s putting all responsibility on others. Like, honey, use your words. Communicate. Don’t expect people to read your mind. If you set the expectation that you want people to guess how you’re feeling, then you’ll have to deal with the fallout of some wrong guesses. It’s easier to just make yourself clear.

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        43 minutes ago

        In the context of marriage??

        Like, we can assume there were years of intimacy involved, followed by formal proceedings.