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wife is leaving
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QCassidy said:
Thank you. I enjoyed it as a "turn off my brain for a few hours" exercise, but hardly worth remembering nearly a decade later. Now, if they want to start quoting Chaucer, Shakespeare, Asimov or Heinlein, then we're talking.
QCassidy said:
Agreed. While I do believe in compromise, the first time my wife ever tells me I can't have something that I can pay cash for is the day we have a real problem. We always discuss purchases anyway, but we've never once told each other no. Well, except for that time I tried to convince her we HAD to have that $4 million villa on Grand Bahama.
Nice ink BTW.
Feel Proud
I don't know how long you have been married, but if it is over 5 years, you should feel very proud that the worst thing your wife can think of you doing is buying something she asked you not to buy.
if you have been married less than 5 years, just buy the phone and tell her "Honey, I am just trying to ease you into the realization that, at some point, and probably several times, I am going to disappoint you greatly."
I don't know how long you have been married, but if it is over 5 years, you should feel very proud that the worst thing your wife can think of you doing is buying something she asked you not to buy.
if you have been married less than 5 years, just buy the phone and tell her "Honey, I am just trying to ease you into the realization that, at some point, and probably several times, I am going to disappoint you greatly."
Geez, how is this (same idea) being repeated so much? When my wife says I can't buy something it's 'cause we don't have the money!
She's usually right, so where am I gonna get DOUBLE the money!?
i came with a 600 dollar iPhone last summer... my wife did **** a brick, then made me buy her one the very next week...hahaha
Well slowly but surely i think the old bird is coming around. i let her read some of the post and she laughed her butt off. she really liked the one about trading her in on an iphone. if it were only possible. trading in something that takes more than 10 seconds and the touch of a button to turn on for a beautiful slim masterpiece that doesnt gripe about the garbage and is very sensitive to touch. mute on demand and can just put in the dresser when done. HMMMMMMMM maybe i should take her to the apple store and see what they can do.
I am hoping the new iPhone looks pretty similar to the current model.
That way I can buy the new model, eBay the old model and my wife will be none the wiser.
That way I can buy the new model, eBay the old model and my wife will be none the wiser.
If your wife is really considering leaving you for something like this, I think you have a bigger problem on your hands and should look into marriage counseling =\
Clearly, she doesn't get technolust. Educate her so you can both go broke.
1. Buy her the iPhone. Tell her it makes her look skinny.
2. Buy her the iPhone. Put it in vibrate mode
I laughed and laughed and laughed when I read the skinny part.
bloody brilliant.
Alex
I have always wondered the same thing
People talked about buying 2 original iPhones "just to be safe" and I was always like....what?
i didnt buy two to be safe bud. the 16g has only been out for 4 months. i bought it as a memory upgrade and had the intentions of giving the 8g to my wife. but now a new one is coming out. thats how i ended up with two.
No need to take offense
I was honestly wondering
What I said was in reference to what a poster had told me before the original launch day
I guess some have enough money to spend to buy two iPhones and more power to them
I don't have anyone to talk about macs with. I am the only one that I know personally that has one.
But as soon as my daughter gets one I will have her.
Hubby just goes whatever...
But I am the first one he asks when he has a problem with any computer. Though I am a next to know nothing kind of geek (ok a geek wannabe) ...
Marry me?
My girlfriend hit me in the head with a broom today because i said iPhone too many times.
Do what i do. Buy the phone, when she sees it sayyyy oh i forgot to tell you.
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is permission. I have bought 2 iMacs, 2 iPhones, a Mac Pro, and a Apple TV..........so far
I have been married for 7 years. Still works to this day.
(I think she knows how I am and still just rolls her eyes and deals with it)
Gawd I love her
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is permission. I have bought 2 iMacs, 2 iPhones, a Mac Pro, and a Apple TV..........so far
I have been married for 7 years. Still works to this day.
(I think she knows how I am and still just rolls her eyes and deals with it)
Gawd I love her
I am sure the new iPhone will not look any different to her. Buy it and don't tell her. She will never know the difference.
Just get your wife the iPhone and don't get yourself one until a few months later. Let her enjoy it, and play with it, and show her that all of this is as your expense. It could have been yours, but you don't want to leave her out of the enjoyment.
During that time, pawn off your older iPhones, if at all possible, and get yourself a new iPhone a few months later. By that time, she'll be in love with hers and will see the advantages of both of you having new iPhones. This diffuses the iPhone jealousy that the girls have over all us guys playing with our iPhones all the time.
During that time, pawn off your older iPhones, if at all possible, and get yourself a new iPhone a few months later. By that time, she'll be in love with hers and will see the advantages of both of you having new iPhones. This diffuses the iPhone jealousy that the girls have over all us guys playing with our iPhones all the time.
That my friend is what I did. But I was using the tilt, she always say "your always playing with that damn phone". So, for a Xmas/New Years present,,, BAM, hit her with the Iphone. 2 weeks later, BAM, my Iphone.. You have to get them interested in what your doing. Wifey saw that most of my friends girls, Wifes, watched sports with them, and that I love sports, so now, she's there with me. She might know whats going on all the time, but you have to try, b4 you deny!!!