Selective Memory
AHHHH. I get so tired of men and their selective memory.
We have three dogs. The larger dog stays in the living room at night and the two Mini Schnauzer's (MS) stay in the room with us. I got MS1 when I lived alone and he slept in the bed with me. We got MS2 together and from the beginning I said I didn't want him in the bed with us. Just no room. But BF says he's so cute and slowly starts letting him stay in bed with us until it's an every night thing.
He complains on and off about not wanting three dogs (even though when we got the third dog, MS2, he said if I wanted him he would pay 1/2. Sounded like he was ok with it to me). He uses the dogs as a thing to bitch about when he's in a mad mood. We got two of the dogs together and I've offered to find a home for the larger dog even though I really don't want to because we have had her since she was a couple of months and we are the only family she knows.
Fastward to a month ago, the day we found a file of poop and pee filled underwear in SD10s room. BF starts on about how he doesn't want the dogs in bed with us. He's screaming about it. I think he's taking his anger about SD out on me. Ok, I made them stay on the floor. Had to keep waking up in the night to put them back on the floor but I was working on it. Two days later it's the weekend and he says they can stay in the bed on the weekends. Ok, dogs don't know from weekends. Then he said they can just sleep back in the bed. I specifically told him that HE was making this decision and I fine with making them sleeping on the floor.
Well, BF woke up in a mood today. Yelling (at 6am) about how he doesn't want the dogs in the bed. How he's told me this over and over and I care more about the dogs then him. I told him that he made the decision to let the back in the bed. Just on and on about how he's the "Man" of the house and I don't need to back talk. So I just ignored him and went into the living room. How do you have a conversation with someone that is purposely forgetting their part in the whole "problem". As far as I'm concerned, he started this whole mess.
So now, how am I supposed to retrain two dogs to stay off the bed. And I'm guessing whatever progress I do make he will undo when he gets sappy for MS2s sweetness. I can't keep them in the living room because they just sit out the door and cry all night. I have tried to crate them but MS2 was in a cage for 5 months when we got him and he freaks out when I put him in a crate. AHHHHH, MEN.
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I second that
I second that
That pissed me off. I walked
That pissed me off. I walked away at that point. He wasn't interested in having a real discussion. He just wanted to rant and I wasn't going to get in an argument about something that was his fault to begin with.
That would have pissed me off
That would have pissed me off to no end and I would have back handed him LOL. You shouldn’t tolerate your DH saying that to you. Y’all are equals in your relationship. He’s not superior and you are not inferior to him. You are not his subordinate, you are his equal partner.
BF would be sleeping on the
BF would be sleeping on the floor. Or in his daughter's room, with the poopy underwear.
My FDH pulled that man of the
My FDH pulled that man of the house shit. Then I pointed out JUST HOW MUCH the woman of this house contributes (financially, at the time, and all the other things- cooking and cleaning and laundry and paying the bills and remembering your MOTHERS BIRTHDAY and keeping on top of the school work and ALL the childcare...). I went on quite the rant.
He blinked at me once or twice, and apologized. Now when he whines about something (honeyyyy where's my favorite shirt?) I tell him to woman up (I don't know honey, did you out it away after I washed it? Woman up!).
It keeps us laughing but also reminds him in a very real way that he can posture all he wants but the legwork that makes that possible all comes from me.
I'm going to try that next
I'm going to try that next time.
I would talk to him when
I would talk to him when you're not going to bed or waking up, about the dogs. Tell him that he needs to make a concrete decision about where the dogs are sleeping and that he has to stick to his decision and there's no going back on it. Then tell him if he goes back on his word, then the WOMAN of the house will kick his ass out of the bedroom. Tell him he can find another spot in the house to sleep but that you are not going to confuse these dogs anymore than they are because of him.
Write up a "contract" and both of you sign it and date it.
Men, selective hearing and memory.
He can sleep in SD's piss bed
He can sleep in SD's piss bed while she's at her moms house
I don't need to back
I don't need to back talk.
What the? I'd like to knock his teeth so far down his throat that he'll be talking out of his ass! Oh wait, he already IS talking out of his ass. What a schmuck....
Next time a convo comes up about the damn dogs and the bed, be sure to secretly record it on your phone so you can play it back for him the next time he has memory lapse and wants to yell at you and tell you to not "talk back"