True, but not always true. Sometimes it’s the boss at work, or the bills on the desk, or the son you used to take fishing before he moved away for college.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not the fishing that’s the reason. It’s the wife at home.
RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I do not understand relationships like this. My father would leave for hunting for 3-6 weeks at a time to get away from my mother, but would not divorce her. It made my childhood miserable.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I originally meant it as a joke but thins is just sad! I am sorry for you my dude. Hope you are doing well nonetheless
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
My mother finally moved out of the house 3 years ago. They are still married, and still see one another… and they get along better than they ever have. I wish they had done this when I was a child, my childhood would have been so much better.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If it was bad enough you think they should have been divorced, there was likely more going on there. But I kinda think in general a lot of these boomer humor wife-bad jokes come from the usual anxiety one can feel with people they live with. I often have similar feelings about my roommate, particularly when he hasn’t gone to the office for work in a while.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
We lived in the boonies, my mother is from NYC… she hated it, my dad is from the sticks of PA and loved it. My mother also had an abuse father and older brother, which is how she disciplined her children, more abuse.