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Does anyone else regress when wife/partner/spouse is out of town? (1 Viewer)

Senor Schmutzig

Senor Schmutzig

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This is probably a rhetorical question, but does anyone (everyone?) regress back to being college age when their wife/spouse or significant other is out of town?

I dropped my wife off at the airport this morning as she is going to visit her mom for a week or so.

Meanwhile, I get home after work and am now sitting in the living room in my underwear, listening to country music at a volume that is considerably higher than she would agree with, watching a baseball game on the tv, drinking a beer and eating a rotisserie chicken for dinner. That’s it, just the chicken and beer for dinner. Lol. No ragrets.
 
Senor Schmutzig said:
This is probably a rhetorical question, but does anyone (everyone?) regress back to being college age when their wife/spouse or significant other is out of town?

I dropped my wife off at the airport this morning as she is going to visit her mom for a week or so.

Meanwhile, I get home after work and am now sitting in the living room in my underwear, listening to country music at a volume that is considerably higher than she would agree with, watching a baseball game on the tv, drinking a beer and eating a rotisserie chicken for dinner. That’s it, just the chicken and beer for dinner. Lol. No ragrets.
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Not even 1 letter?
 
Senor Schmutzig said:
This is probably a rhetorical question, but does anyone (everyone?) regress back to being college age when their wife/spouse or significant other is out of town?

I dropped my wife off at the airport this morning as she is going to visit her mom for a week or so.

Meanwhile, I get home after work and am now sitting in the living room in my underwear, listening to country music at a volume that is considerably higher than she would agree with, watching a baseball game on the tv, drinking a beer and eating a rotisserie chicken for dinner. That’s it, just the chicken and beer for dinner. Lol. No ragrets.
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Highly recommend Wheeler Walker Jr.
 
My wife went to Maui for a month. I came back from the store about 3 weeks in with beer, cheese, ground turkey, an onion and some tortillas. Figured that would get me through the last week. My 18 year old daughter just looked at me and shook her head.

My wife insta carted $200 in gtoceries the next day. My kid ratted me out. 😂😂😂
 
Orange&Blue said:
Yes, which is why the hour before she shows up I'm trying to clean the house.

"Why is the dishwasher and laundry always running when I get home?"
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Dishwasher??? I will use one glass for 2 weeks and eat leftovers off paper towels. There shall be no cooking, other than the grill. This is the time to hit all the food trucks, restaurants and bars the wife and kids don't know exist.

Aug 1 for me. Just me, my dog and Bobbi Magee.
 
Wish I could.
Wife goes to Texas twice a year for a week to speak at hospitals about patient care with a team from St Jude. I keep working and manage the house with the kids here. Thankfully my 17yo likes to cook so he’ll manage dinners and the others will help keep the house up.
The only difference for me will be taking two days off to spend time with the kids - waterpark one day, not sure what we'll do the other plus the weekend. But life doesn’t change much when she’s gone.
 
Every. Single. Time.

I start secretly planning my menu the week before she leaves. Steak, lobster, etc. is always on the table. Play video games all day. I even called out of work a few months ago and day drank with a couple of buddies.

I treat it as a mini-vacation.
 
It may be different once the kids are gone, but for now she's way worse than me. The kids loathe when it's me during the week because then they know it's almost certainly leftovers whereas it's auto takeout when it's mom. Weekend is a different story though.
 
Not saying it’s like this situation at all but reminded me of a conversation I had just last week. I’m a nurse so I work with a lot of women. One, who I actually like a lot, works part time two evenings a week. She said she got home the evening before and her husband was asleep on the couch and she woke him up. I said……what did you wake him up for? Her responses and I quote……..it annoys me to see him relaxing when I’ve been working.
 
General Malaise said:
Orange&Blue said:
Yes, which is why the hour before she shows up I'm trying to clean the house.

"Why is the dishwasher and laundry always running when I get home?"
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Dishwasher??? I will use one glass for 2 weeks and eat leftovers off paper towels. There shall be no cooking, other than the grill. This is the time to hit all the food trucks, restaurants and bars the wife and kids don't know exist.

Aug 1 for me. Just me, my dog and Bobbi Magee.
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This guy gets it.
 
MAC_32 said:
It may be different once the kids are gone
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This is a big determining factor. When my kids were little, it was all about making them a fun experience.

My kids are 20 and 18 now. Quite independent. They live in the same house(one is in college and the other just graduated high school), but I hardly see them. Once in a while, they emerge from their room to eat, hiss at me, and continue their self imposed alienation.
 
msudaisy26 said:
I don't think my husband does this, but if he does then he is savage just like like rest of you!
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It's like when your parents went out of town for a weekend when you were in HS, only instead of throwing a party, you draw the shades in the front of the house and only speak to delivery drivers over the phone.

And a few hours before arrival back from vacation, you get rid of all the evidence of fun, water some plants that you neglected and make sure the toilets are clean.

There is zero chance Mr. Daisy is a Boy Scout when you're gone with any kids. Zero.
 
Oh, and we practice in the mirror like we're on Broadway - "Oh my GOSH, I'm so glad you're home! I was so miserable here without you all! The house was TOO quiet and I just missed you all soooooooo much!"

I could win a mother bleeping Toney with my performances.
 
General Malaise said:
msudaisy26 said:
I don't think my husband does this, but if he does then he is savage just like like rest of you!
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It's like when your parents went out of town for a weekend when you were in HS, only instead of throwing a party, you draw the shades in the front of the house and only speak to delivery drivers over the phone.

And a few hours before arrival back from vacation, you get rid of all the evidence of fun, water some plants that you neglected and make sure the toilets are clean.

There is zero chance Mr. Daisy is a Boy Scout when you're gone with any kids. Zero.
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Did you get the egg back in time from guido the killer pimp?
 
General Malaise said:
msudaisy26 said:
I don't think my husband does this, but if he does then he is savage just like like rest of you!
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It's like when your parents went out of town for a weekend when you were in HS, only instead of throwing a party, you draw the shades in the front of the house and only speak to delivery drivers over the phone.

And a few hours before arrival back from vacation, you get rid of all the evidence of fun, water some plants that you neglected and make sure the toilets are clean.

There is zero chance Mr. Daisy is a Boy Scout when you're gone with any kids. Zero.
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Boy scout, no offense course not, but also isn't going risky business and sitting around in his underwear eating Cheetos.

He usually has a casino trip and him and his buddies stay out until 4 am and he definitely has a couple meals that the rest of us don't care for.

Plus calling you all savages was just me trying to be funny.
 
I wouldn't say my routine changes a ton if it's during the week, as I'm still working during the day. But if it's a weekend, I'll do things that I don't normally do (e.g., hit up record stores) . But dinner allows me to go out/order in cuisines that my wife is not a fan of (e.g., Chinese food). And can watch shows I don't often get a chance to all night.

Basically it's nice to enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode gets it.
 
Like most veterans I have a long history of alcoholism. Without getting too deep I've been 99% sober for 20 years. Yay me. Having said that. On those rare occasions when Dad is home alone for a stretch of time, which is rarely, I'll pick up a 12 pack of beer and soak in my sin. I'm an honest man and a very transparent husband, but we all got some cobwebs upstairs. So yes I definitely regress. Ha ha
 
With a wife and four daughters (2 still living at home) it's extremely rare that I'm home alone for any amount of time. MAYBE for a few hours a night on a random Wednesday.. Last night was one of those nights. I cut the lawn and then grabbed 2 brats, a couple of beers and walked next door to my neighbor's patio on the lake where he has a grill and I knew he'd be watching the Tigers.

Threw the brats on his grill, drank the beers, watched the Tigers lose, took a boat cruise and was in bed before anybody even got home.
 
DA RAIDERS said:
My wife went to Maui for a month. I came back from the store about 3 weeks in with beer, cheese, ground turkey, an onion and some tortillas. Figured that would get me through the last week. My 18 year old daughter just looked at me and shook her head.

My wife insta carted $200 in gtoceries the next day. My kid ratted me out. 😂😂😂
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a month?!?
 
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