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Rodebaugh wrote:This is going to be a good one. Nice Idea Ray.

Rodebaugh wrote:I listen to her nurse stories every day. She's not a petty chick so they are treatment and patient management related topics as opposed to gossip. I’m cool with that. She listens to my coin and dental babble. Fair trade. If we are home together.....PC goes on sleep mode and we hit the back deck grilling and BSing.

I post and read RC on downtime. In my line of work I have a good bit of down time. Also the Mrs works the hoot-owl shift and it's either RC or TV when shes away.

beauanderos wrote:Great responses, all. Just because you may not talk much, doesn't mean you don't love your wife (or girlfriend). It may be she has no interest in your "hobbies," so you turn here to further your interests... or you may not be interested in hers, after all. I mean, c'mon... what's not to like about what someone said to someone on The Edge, or "what will the world do without the Oprah show," or one of my favorites... after spending hours in the mall because she needed to pick something up, only to return home empty-handed, after multiple turns at her donning costumes (oops, I meant outfits)... and she asks "remember all the dresses I looked at? Which one did you like best?" And your reply, naturally, would have been "the first one, then we could have come home."

beauanderos wrote:This poll is meant to be whimsical, but might be a reason for some self-examination at the same time. The question came to mind because of a thread Neil is running, and the fact that it got hijacked. The point was made that threads are posted to stimulate conversation. It's always seemed to me as if men most often do much more (supposed) listening in couples, than they do talking. Self-disclosure... I am divorced. Perhaps it was my unwillingness to listen to hours of seemingly empty babble about stuff unrelated to us (every day seemed like a new episode of Desperate Housewive's) that led to the marriage's demise?

OneBiteAtATime wrote:Here's the scene.

9:30pm. The kids in bed. I finally flop into the easychair with the laptop. I'm RCing, she's watching reality cooking TV. After the 4th or 5th time I pretend to listen to her talk about television, in truth I'm hearing the grownup from Charlie Brown, I finalluy say, you know I don't cae about this crap.

I know.

Then I get 6-7 minutes of uninterupted realcent time. Ah. my favorite 6 minutes of the day.

Rodebaugh wrote:She's not a petty chick so they are treatment and patient management related topics as opposed to gossip.

AGgressive Metal wrote:

Rodebaugh wrote:She's not a petty chick so they are treatment and patient management related topics as opposed to gossip.

At first, I read "she's not a PRETTY chick." I was like "Dude, Rodebaugh, wtf?"

twentybux wrote:

AGgressive Metal wrote:

Rodebaugh wrote:She's not a petty chick so they are treatment and patient management related topics as opposed to gossip.

At first, I read "she's not a PRETTY chick." I was like "Dude, Rodebaugh, wtf?"

That is sooooo funny because when I first read that I thought the same thing. Glad it wasn't just me.

beauanderos wrote:This poll is meant to be whimsical, but might be a reason for some self-examination at the same time. The question came to mind because of a thread Neil is running, and the fact that it got hijacked. The point was made that threads are posted to stimulate conversation. It's always seemed to me as if men most often do much more (supposed) listening in couples, than they do talking. Self-disclosure... I am divorced. Perhaps it was my unwillingness to listen to hours of seemingly empty babble about stuff unrelated to us (every day seemed like a new episode of Desperate Housewive's) that led to the marriage's demise?

Rodebaugh wrote:I listen to her nurse stories every day. She's not a petty chick so they are treatment and patient management related topics as opposed to gossip. I’m cool with that. She listens to my coin and dental babble. Fair trade. If we are home together.....PC goes on sleep mode and we hit the back deck grilling and BSing.

I post and read RC on downtime. In my line of work I have a good bit of down time. Also the Mrs works the hoot-owl shift and it's either RC or TV when shes away.

Treetop wrote:My wife is my best friend. I wouldnt of married her if she wasnt. Heck we met eachother in an AOL chat room, talking about some of the same issues sometimes touched on here actually. Weve been together for 11 years and married for 7.

Realcent never bothered her at all. Although a gardening forum I was on for awhile did.... One of the two of us is often on the computer. We dont have a TV.... this is our entertainment. We dont have many local friends.