Marriage and the Power of Divorce

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Noodleface

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Wife's been home for like 6 months now with the baby. Tonight she starts working 3 nights a week (9PM-2AM, just part time). Am I a bad person for being a little grateful for the break?
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
Wife's been home for like 6 months now with the baby. Tonight she starts working 3 nights a week (9PM-2AM, just part time). Am I a bad person for being a little grateful for the break?
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You'd be a bad person if you had a craigslist hooker over there at 9:01pm.
 
iannis

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I believe that's the Max Hardcore discount.

Man, I've never thought about it. But you could get some nearly free poon with a couple of coupons.

I've wasted 20 years of my life, brothers.
 
Dandai

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Noodlemod_sl said:
Wife's been home for like 6 months now with the baby. Tonight she starts working 3 nights a week (9PM-2AM, just part time). Am I a bad person for being a little grateful for the break?
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After being married almost ten years I've found that balance is the key to happiness. I think of my interactions with my wife like an MMO reputation system. Maintaining high rep is a constant grind and not a very realistic goal because you will lose rep over time, and the quests that lower your rep are way more fun than the quests that raise it. If I know something is coming down the pipe that's gonna cost a significant amount of rep I'll grind up a sufficient amount in the weeks leading up to the event. However, I do throw in the occasional random act of rep gain to ensure she doesn't think that everything I do is just compensating for impending rep loss.

I know it sounds like a joke, but this system has worked very well for me. She's happy because I make an active effort to do things I know she appreciates, even if she's aware that sometimes my efforts aren't entirely altruistic. Obviously if you let your wife in on the game, you're going to lose... so don't do that. But playing the reputation game has allowed me much more free time for the activities that I enjoyed prior to having our children than the vast majority of dudes I know.
 
Soygen

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The key is that when your wife rep gets too low, you just have to exploit her pathing and get her stuck in a doorway. Then just go do whatever you want.
 
moonarchia

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And now we know how Soy got to try anal for the first time. Being a monk in CT in vanilla had a grander purpose in his life.
 
Noodleface

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I always considered it a rep grind, but what I didn't consider was that there was a permanent rep decay. Awesome.

Felt good last night to just chill out for a bit by myself after the kid slept. I enjoy my time with my wife, but the last 6 months she's basically been joined to my hip when I get home. Also all her TV shows are stupid.
 
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Dandai_sl said:
After being married almost ten years I've found that balance is the key to happiness. I think of my interactions with my wife like an MMO reputation system. Maintaining high rep is a constant grind and not a very realistic goal because you will lose rep over time, and the quests that lower your rep are way more fun than the quests that raise it. If I know something is coming down the pipe that's gonna cost a significant amount of rep I'll grind up a sufficient amount in the weeks leading up to the event. However, I do throw in the occasional random act of rep gain to ensure she doesn't think that everything I do is just compensating for impending rep loss.

I know it sounds like a joke, but this system has worked very well for me. She's happy because I make an active effort to do things I know she appreciates, even if she's aware that sometimes my efforts aren't entirely altruistic. Obviously if you let your wife in on the game, you're going to lose... so don't do that. But playing the reputation game has allowed me much more free time for the activities that I enjoyed prior to having our children than the vast majority of dudes I know.
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What do you do if your rep gets so low you become KOS?
 
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