There are just some things I wish my husband would do simply because it would make me really happy. That isn’t to say he doesn’t already make me happy, but I think it might make me feel a little better if he did a couple of what probably seems like stupid activities to him just to make me a little happier.

But on that same note, I’m trying to do things for him to make him happy and I dunno if I’m doing a good job or not. Football season absolutely is driving me crazy. But I’m doing my best to just deal with it because I realize it’s something he really enjoys. But I swear it’s one of the very few things he and I have ever argued about.

For example… He complained that he doesn’t have any Sundays off and he wants to watch football. I even offered to record it for him and he got snotty with me and told me he doesn’t want to actually watch the game – just the highlights. *Scratches head* There must be some weird man/woman communication barrier. He says there is more than one game. Great… I’ll record them all and what I can’t record, I will find someone who can.

But he got mad at me and told me it wasn’t the same thing because he’d already know the score and outcome. Huh? Again… must be a gender barrier. Why can’t he just not look at the score before hand and watch the game? How is this any damn different from watching it live? It’s not like by recording it, the highlights and stuff won’t be there. It’s the same damn game… and he can even fast forward through the commercials!

I don’t get it and no amount of his explaining is going to change that because quite frankly, I really think he’s more angry at his job in general rather than being upset because he’s missing a football game. He can’t say I didn’t try I guess. I was more than willing to record the games and make him dinner and get him all set up so he could enjoy it.

I hate it when he’s being stubborn like this. Because we both know the outcome. We’ll be upset at each other for thirty minutes or so. I’ll be really quiet for a while and so will he until one of us decides to admit defeat / wrong-doing and we’ll tell each other how sorry we are and all will be done and forgiven. Fighting is so silly. Is that even fighting? haha

Anyways… I want him to do something with me that I know he’s not happy about. He’s not even real happy that I’m doing it but he for the most part has let it go. But I want him to participate in it with me. I feel like all of my friends are enjoying something together with their significant others and I’m always the third wheel.

I know, I know… his ex girlfriend used it to cheat on him. I get it. But I do things for him and with him that bring up bad memories for me too. And I really think if I introduced him to a different aspect of it and he spent time with me on it, he’d come to enjoy it. Blah. I just think in this twisted, messed up world we live in, this would take a bit of the edge off for me and we could enjoy spending time together.

I know that was totally vague. I read it again and it sounds weird. haha He’ll know what I’m talking about tho.