My MIL came over for a visit this past week. She has been married to my FIL for 48 years, they had 3 kids, and lived together throughout their entire marriage. My MIL whom I consider wise and often go to her for advice, told me something that shocked me and I wondered what you ladies thought about this. My MIL has come to the conclusion after all her 70 years on this earth, that men and women were not meant and should not live together. She says that she has talked about this with many of her friends (her own age, I'm guessing) and they agree with this. What do you think?
MC
I am baffled? Wow. MIL's say strange things, did you ask her to elaborate?
Wow, that is funny! My husband and I have loads of seperate time. Being the gamer he is, her retreats to his "Man Cave" to play his video games after we put our daughter to bed. I like to relax in our bedroom with a good book or puzzle. Sometimes we just want to be together, so we have nights for us. But if we didnt have all of the seperate time, we would be at eachothers throats! That being said, I love living with him, we are an awesome team. I cant even imagine.... However, I am real interested to see what I have to say in 50 years!
wow I just had that same thought the other day
Wow, I think that it's a bit strange that she feels this way since she has been married and living with the same man all these years. One of the things that I've learned from being married and living with the same man for almost 9 years is that men and women are defintely different in the way they respond to problems in a marrage. Sometimes when my husband and I argue I wonder how and why in the world do I live with this man. I really believe that alot of men behave like children. And as a result we women wonder how do we put up with them.
Maybe your in-laws had recently had some type of disagreement.
Do you mean as man and wife or should not live together at all?
R.
Some people think that God doesn’t have a sense of humor, I disagree. I’m convinced every time a husband and wife argue over putting down the toilet seat, he is rolling over laughing.
God created men and women differently. We see, think and feel everything differently. Logically, one would think that men and women are completely incompatible, and should never live with each other. But we still come together and want to be with each other. We try to work through and even rely on our differences. But no matter how much we might want to live with our spouses there are still many times in our lives were we think “if they would just act more like a man/woman, things would be easier.
In my opinion, that’s were a lot of divorces come in. The man doesn’t understand the woman’s mind (and doesn’t want to try); and the woman doesn’t understand the man’s mind (and doesn’t want to try).
But that’s just my opinion.
