What? Your mom’s going to be staying with us? Why don’t you ask me before you tell her she can? You know how I feel about her….

The statement above isn’t something new for married couples. It’s a conversation that most husbands and wives get into, time after time. Although I would like to think I am way different from a typical male since I have no macho attitude, the statement above applies to me as well. So yes, I myself despise my mother in law. Before I go any further into this post, I would just like to remind my female readers that this might not be true about your mother. This is my mother in law I am talking about in this post which mostly is true for most men when it comes to the reason why they despise their mother in law .

Here are 5 reasons why I despise my mother in law which I am sure is true for most men,

They Are My Kids, Not Yours

Sound Familiar? Yup, that’s the mother in law right there. When you do something it automatically becomes wrong just cause you are her son in law. But the same thing when done by your kids ( her grand kids ) it becomes right, just cause they are her grand kids. How about the fact she tries to teach you how to raise your own kids? Don’t we men just hate that? As a dad we have our own little ways to try to shape our kids’ future and such, but the grandma has to step in and tell you what to do and what not to. And what makes it worse is the fact she does it right infront of the grandkids. This obviously makes you mad since she is sending a message to the kids indirectly which says, ” What your dad is doing isn’t right. This is what you should do.” I just hate that. Don’t teach me how to raise my kids. Ohh how I hate my mother in law!! Strong word but it’s a fact.

Why The Heck is It Wrong When I do It?

The other thing that I hate, just hate about my mother in law is the differentiation she does between her son and me. Ohhhh no….. I don’t want to be her son…..no way … just the fact that when her son does something with his wife it’s ok, cause he is her son. But if I do the same thing it’s not ok cause I am her son in law. It seems like mother in laws tend to make our lives hard and they don’t even have to try it, it just comes to them naturally.

How come it’s ok for her son to take his wife out to movies while a babysitter watches their children. And when I do the same thing she says , “Ummmm….Don’t you think you should stay home with the kids so she can have some time alone?” WTF? I give her time alone but I do want to spend some time with her as well. Why is her son a great husband when he takes his wife out to dinner and when I plan on doing the same thing I am an ass? That makes sense…NOT!

Can We Go Easy on The Avon Perfumes

I think this is true for most mother in laws. Avon is what they grew up with. If your mother in law is fairly young, this might not be the case. But most older MIL’s ( Mother In Law ) are just stuck with AVON. My mother in law literally uses 5 different perfumes at the same time. Of course, I save money on air freshner but the smell that lingers from her isn’t pleasant. Think about it…five different perfumes, it’s just not pleasant.

By the way, she is also an AVON representative and hosts regular AVON parties at MY HOUSE. It’s bad enough that I come home and she is there, imagine my frustration when I see 10 more woman just like her..not fun!

It’s My House, My TV and My Remote!

I have said it time after time, I am not a typical male that likes to sit on the couch with feet up on the table watching TV all day. On a typical day I probably watch TV not for more than 2 hours. Usually at night, once the kids go to bed I like to watch a little TV with my wife and then catch some news to keep myself updated on what’s going on around the world.

My mother in law on the other hand likes to watch Infomercials. When she is around, she literally will take charge over my remote and TV and not to mention my house. As somebody older than me I show respect to her and let her do what she wants to, but after a while it starts to get a little annoying. Why the hack can’t I watch what I want to watch when I want to watch in MY HOUSE? Beats me.

I wouldn’t Have done that, but that’s ok

Hey guys, does that sound familiar? I bet it does. It’s a very common statment made my most mother in laws. You do something and although it can’t be done any better, she will say it “I wouldn’t have done that, but that’s ok.” The other day I built my children a tire swing and it was as sturdy as it could be. I was happy and quite proud of myself. My mother in law walks out on the deck and says “I wouldn’t have done that. I would rather buy them a swing set…but that’s ok.” I didn’t say anything to her but my thoughts sure did, “How about you help me out with expenses a little and stop spoiling my kids? How about you give me my wife back who you have made to think I am the worst man on earth? How about when I do things just like your son does you say something nice? How about you treat me like your son? How about you see what I have given to your daughter and grandkids? How about you just treat me as a human….how about that, you old B****?”

Yes, those are some harsh words but if you think I am an ass for writing this and expressing my feelings, you are more than welcome to come take her for couple weeks. I am sure you will have her back within a day or so… but even one day without her would be heaven for me.

I apologize, if my words were harsh and disrespectful. This is the best way to let my feelings out and I couldn’t do anything but to share it with you guys, since we talk and share things with each other. Can’t really talk to my mother in law and she has started turning my wife against me but hey that’s what mother in laws do.

There she is, I can hear her talking to my wife “What the hack does he do on the computer for hours? You sure he is not into Porn?” Goddddddddd I hate that woman

I have a little story to tell you today. Nothing long and boring, just a quick short incident that I came across while walking in the mall with my wife. Me and my wife had a long day yesterday ( nothing unusual ) and to relax ourselves we thought we would go for a nice little drive and then hit the mall for quick window shopping ( we both enjoy it ). We had a good old time just hanging out and walking through the mall and checking stuff out. While we were at the mall we went to a store that sells swimming gear as we are both planning on taking kids to a water resort.

While we were checking out some swimming shorts, tubes and what not I over heard a conversation. There were two guys and a little girl ( one of the guys’ daughter who was probably 10-12 years old ). The two guys were laughing, talking and as they say “checking out” the store manager. Then the guy who I assume is the little girl’s dad made a comment to his friend which went something like this : “Check this bikini out man! I bet that chick would look hot with this on. If she can make me feel this way with those jeans, I would freaking jump at her if she had these bikinis on.” Please note that the little girl was right by their side. Right after the guy was done saying this, the little girl said,

Hey Dad, Let’s not forget I am your daughter and someday I will be a woman. Would you want guys to talk about me like that?

The guy was shocked! He probably didn’t expect his little girl to get back on his statement but for me and my wife it was a delight. It was nice to see a little girl stand up for herself and every other woman out there. I just wanted to share this as it is something that we see quite often. Some dad’s make comments and rude gestures that show little girls that that’s the only way to get attention, cheap attention for that matter. I am glad I had a chance to see and know at least that one little girl won’t turn out that way.

So next time you are with your daughter watch what you say. You don’t want to be the one to hear that statement coming from your daughter, do you?.Think men, think before you look at another woman as a piece of meat. She can’t be just that can she? And why make your daughter think that’s how men should look at her when she grows up…..

A man & wife entered a dentist’s office. The Wife said, “I want a tooth pulled. I don’t want gas or Novocain because I’m in a terrible hurry. Just pull the tooth as quickly as possible.”

You’re a brave woman said the dentist. Now, Show me which tooth it is.

The wife turns to her husband and says “Open your mouth and show the dentist which tooth it is, dear.”

1. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ~ Jane Austen
2. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
3. A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. ~ Jean Rostand
4. The only way a woman can marry now is to agree to become a charwoman, regardless of her education and skills. ~ Margaret Mead
5. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: “Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly.” Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust. ~ Ruth Smythers
6. I’d like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night. ~ Carrie Snow
7. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher…and that is a good thing for any man. ~ Socrates
8. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. ~ Herbert Spencer
9. Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~ Gloria Steinem
10. If you meet somebody who tells you that he loves you more than anybody in the whole wide world, don’t trust him. It means he experiments. A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth; with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished. ~ Frank P. Tebbetts
11. Every woman should marry—and no man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
12. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ~ Lana Turner
13. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
14. Advice to persons about to marry. ‘Don’t.’ ~ Anonymous
15. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. ~ Voltaire
16. Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. ~ Mae West
17. Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry. ~ Harriet Martineau
18. Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ~ Oscar Wilde
19. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable. – Oscar Wilde
20. A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar. ~ L. S. Lowry
21. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? ~ Virginia Woolf
22. He said that, by God, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage? ~ Stella Gibbons
23. Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. ~ William Shakespeare
24. The early marriages of silly children…where…every woman is married before she well knows how serious a matter human life is. ~ Harriet Martineau
25. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~ Isadora Duncan
26. As a general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is. ~ Robertson Davies
27. Being married six times shows a degree of optimism over wisdom, but I am incorrigibly optimistic. ~ Norman Mailer
28. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing. ~ Anonymous
29. Composed that monstrous animal a husband and wife. ~ Henry Fielding
30. Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? ~ John Gay

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. ~ Napoleon Hill

Today’s post as you can see from the title itself is dedicated to men. Well, technically women since they would be the one trying to find answers about men. After researching all day I have been able to compile this post with quotes that might answer some questions and some, as always, will remain unanswered no matter how hard we try.

1. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked. ~ Fanny Brice
2. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
3. Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ~ George Bernard Shaw

4. When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ~ Benjamin Franklin
5. Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
6. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
7. All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ~ Blaise Pascal
8. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ~ William Hazlitt
9. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~ Oscar Wilde
10. God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him. ~ Unknown
11. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ~ Oscar Wilde
12. It’s not the men in my life that counts, it’s the life in my men. ~ Mae West
13. A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. ~ Buddha
14. Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. ~ Billy Crystal
15. Men play the game; women know the score. ~ Roger Woddis
16. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. ~ Winston Churchill
17. There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. ~ Samuel Johnson
18. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. ~ Louis Nizer
19. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
20. Few men have been admired of their familiars. ~ Michel de Montaigne
21. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~ Kin Hubbard
22. If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ~ Doris Day
23. All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. ~ John Lyly
24. Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Chuck Norris
25. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~ Victor Hugo
26. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ~ Thomas Carlyle
27. Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ~ George Eliot
28. A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. ~ Jose Marti
29. The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. ~ Julius Charles Hare
30. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. ~ Marilyn Moroe
31. There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
32. Young men preen. Old men scheme. ~ Mason Cooley
33. If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher
34. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost
35. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ~ Samuel Johnson
36. Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
37. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ~ Francis Bacon
38. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ~ Aristotle
39. Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ~ Cher
40. There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. ~ Will Rogers
41. Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ~ Samuel Butler
42. Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~ William Shakespeare
43. Men are only as great as they are kind. ~ Elbert Hubbard
44. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
45. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ~ Confucius
46. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. ~ Henry David Thoreau
47. It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. ~ Frederick Douglass
49. Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
50. Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know there are way too many quotes on men to simply include in a post. If you got some time and have any quotes on men, please take a moment and share with the rest of us.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. ~ Immanuel Kant

A man sees the world as an individual in a hierarchical social order where he is either one above or one down. it’s about status, it’s about negotiations and attempts to make himself the upper hand. it’s a contest, a struggle to preserve his independence.

Man and woman are two different beings. Even while living under the same roof and sleeping on the same bed, conversation between a man and a woman is like cross cultural communication. From a very young age girls play with their best friends or stay in small close knit groups and use language to seek information and reinforce intimacy, whereas boys use language to protect their independence. Like I said it’s a different world and a different way of thinking. Men like authority in their relationship where as women crave security and intimacy. In this article, I want to point out simple yet very powerful reasoning as to why men act the way they do and how we differ from woman in our mentality.

As we all know men and women live in two different worlds. No matter how much we talk about equal rights the truth is society still sees a man as the main provider. Even in a society where a household can’t sustain with just one person’s income, a man being above the woman still prevails. Sad but true!

A Man’s World

When a man engages in a conversation he engages in way he was taught to, as an individual in a hierarchical social order where he is one up or one down. When you see a man disagreeing with his wife , he is trying to achieve and maintain the upper hand and protect himself from being the under dog. An argument or a simple conversation for a man is a contest, a struggle to preserve independence and avoid failure.

A Woman’s World

Women, on the other hand see the world as a network of connections. They look at the world as an individual who is a part of network of connections. A conversation for a woman is negotiation for closeness not be the upper hand. Life to a woman is a community where they try to preserve intimacy and avoid isolation.

What do you think? Am I right? Think men, think! And if you are a woman throw some suggestion and views and opinion at me. It’s always better to see how the world looks from your side and learn more.