So this is a story that happened several years back. I think how my
X wife tells it might be funnier or different. But it took me a long
time to understand what I did wrong.
One year prior to the Christmas Season my Wife and I where trying to stay in shape for the holidays and continue to loose weight. Now she in no imagination is a big girl. But she is 30 now and she is not as lean as when she was 18. She misses it and worries to much about this.
I gave her my view point. I said what ever she ate .. I would feed the children. If she skipped a meal then so would the kids. This kept her in the habit of eating healthy and eating real proportions and not just go pseudo anorexic.
She talked of gaining strength but not having alot of time to eat. I gave her some of the different flavor muscle milks I like and she liked the chocolate.
So Xmas is approaching and I was going out to buy gifts for her and the kids. Normally she buys everything but I buy 1 for each kid and stocking stuff for her. As I left she texted me to get her a case of slimfast.
I got all the gifts came home and they all where gone. I wrapped the boys stuff and placed in under the tree. I placed her gifts and put them in her stocking (oversized) and put it by the fireplace. And it tipped.
I placed it upright two or three times and to my dismay it kept falling. I felt this would not create the normal "holiday" picture of the stocking placed by the fireplace with care. I assessed the situation and determined that the box I have placed in the stocking (a 400$ bracelet) simply did not let the small stuff fall to the base. With out any base the structure did not stand. Easily solved.
I grabbed a solid items with weight that I bought at Costco and placed it in the base of the sock so that it would stand upright and filled it back up. I took a picture with my cell phone and texted it to my Wife s she could see what a good job I had performed!
Now fast forward 5 days later on Xmas morning .... and what did she find ..???
well she went thru each item with care making sure to say nice comments as a polite lady should ... but when she got to the base and pulled out a can of slimfast she started to cry.
She thought that I had given it to her as a slight or as an insult saying that I think she needs to loose weight. No matter how I explained it to her she would not accept. She then simply told every human soul she knew in order to get sympathy because evidently I didn't have any because I did not think I had done anything wrong.
When we got divorced 4 or 5 years later it was still a bone of contention for her. But for me it is just simply Aspie Humour.
One year prior to the Christmas Season my Wife and I where trying to stay in shape for the holidays and continue to loose weight. Now she in no imagination is a big girl. But she is 30 now and she is not as lean as when she was 18. She misses it and worries to much about this.
I gave her my view point. I said what ever she ate .. I would feed the children. If she skipped a meal then so would the kids. This kept her in the habit of eating healthy and eating real proportions and not just go pseudo anorexic.
She talked of gaining strength but not having alot of time to eat. I gave her some of the different flavor muscle milks I like and she liked the chocolate.
So Xmas is approaching and I was going out to buy gifts for her and the kids. Normally she buys everything but I buy 1 for each kid and stocking stuff for her. As I left she texted me to get her a case of slimfast.
I got all the gifts came home and they all where gone. I wrapped the boys stuff and placed in under the tree. I placed her gifts and put them in her stocking (oversized) and put it by the fireplace. And it tipped.
I placed it upright two or three times and to my dismay it kept falling. I felt this would not create the normal "holiday" picture of the stocking placed by the fireplace with care. I assessed the situation and determined that the box I have placed in the stocking (a 400$ bracelet) simply did not let the small stuff fall to the base. With out any base the structure did not stand. Easily solved.
I grabbed a solid items with weight that I bought at Costco and placed it in the base of the sock so that it would stand upright and filled it back up. I took a picture with my cell phone and texted it to my Wife s she could see what a good job I had performed!
Now fast forward 5 days later on Xmas morning .... and what did she find ..???
well she went thru each item with care making sure to say nice comments as a polite lady should ... but when she got to the base and pulled out a can of slimfast she started to cry.
She thought that I had given it to her as a slight or as an insult saying that I think she needs to loose weight. No matter how I explained it to her she would not accept. She then simply told every human soul she knew in order to get sympathy because evidently I didn't have any because I did not think I had done anything wrong.
When we got divorced 4 or 5 years later it was still a bone of contention for her. But for me it is just simply Aspie Humour.
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