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[Messypandas]

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[VoteForPedro]

Edit: Wrong Thread

 

[ChackanKun]

Wow, this game is great! Thanks OP!

Also, work up your marriage. Like another user said, if it's broken beyond any chance of fixing, just part ways. Try to fix your life without being dragged/dragging anyone else!

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

There's no taking care of anything.

You ever been a stay-at-home parent? I'd love to go to work full-time. But I'm not a doctor and my salary wouldnt pay our bills.

I was a lot happier in a household with half the income.

Its a symbiotic relationship. It's not me leeching off of her financially. I earn my keep in sweat equity. I get 2 kids ready every morning for school, get them off to school, get them picked up, ran to all of their activities, all of their appointments, doctors, dentists, take care of them when they are sick, run them to the ER when they have to go, participate when i can in their school activities, volunteer at their school for various things, do 100% of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, taking care of a 4000 sq. ft. house, all the yard work, landscaping, fixing everything thats broken, always running one of our 3 damn animals to the vet constantly, and im sure i am leaving some things out. She could not do what she does, if i wasnt willing to do what I do. Somebody has to take care of our kids. We have one set of grandparents who are in poor health and cant handle young children and another set who are not interested in giving me much of any help.

OMG dude, so many excuses.

tbh this whole thread sounds like you have self respect problems. Leave your crappy life, get a proper job so you can feel self worth again, find songpop lady and get busy.

But whatever you do, man the fuck up. Do whatever you want but do it with conviction and some backbone.

 

[AFollowerNotALeader]

I don't understand your logic. If a home needs one person around for it to not fall apart or explode, how are countless families around the globe avoiding said home explosion while both partners work?

Well. There's a... non-politically correct answer to this which is that they are not doing it very well. Aside from the exploding divorce rate, there's a difference between doing something adequately and doing it well.

It doesn't matter which parent stays home to look after the kids, but it's hard to see it as anything other than preferrable during their early years for one to do so if you can afford it.

 

[KuroNeeko]

I don't understand your logic. If a home needs one person around for it to not fall apart or explode, how are countless families around the globe avoiding said home explosion while both partners work?

That's why people don't respect "homekeepers," because it's not actually a 24/7 job. I mean, the OP is pretty obviously spending all day on SongPop. 100 messages a day, man.

Hey, I get what you're saying and I think that a household with two working parents can definitely maintain a great environment for the kids. I'm just saying that in the cases where one parent can't share the workload because of work - the other is left to do everything. Often times, especially in the case where the one at home is the father, people tend to poo-poo how much work / draining that kind of work can be everyday. So if the OP was writing more about what he does everyday to try and show that he's not just sitting around jerking it then I can see where he's coming from on that angle.

I'd also like to add, and this is a bit off-topic, that just doing the minimum to keep things going and actually creating a healthy, learning environment for your children / family is very different in terms of effort required. An example here is my child is growing up in an environment where English would naturally become his second language. Since I want him to have the freedom to experience and engage in more of the world, as well as communicate with me and his grandparents in my native tongue, I have to work doubly hard to maintain a bilingual environment in our house. I spend almost every minute with him just talking, trying to give him as much exposure to the language as possible. English books, TV shows, songs, english-speaking friends - all of it and this is completely separate from the "normal" "necessary" stuff you have to do raise a healthy child. I'm not looking for props or anything, I do it because I love him and want him to have as many options as possible in the future - I'm just saying that there are levels here that often get looked over when talking about being a homekeeper.

I get what you're alluding to though. As for the OP, I got the impression that he was spending his after-hours (his "off-time") playing the game. Without more information I guess it's impossible to know and probably not even relevant to the original topic. I can't imagine sending out 100 messages to anyone during the day and still manage to get everything done.

 

[cityhunter]

Backstory: So I just started playing SongPop a few days ago and unfortunately only like half a dozen of my Facebook friends are on there, so I did a search here on GAF, and this thread came up.

Soo...
1) Any updates, OP?
2) Is this the same woman from your other SongPop thread?

moar info plz.....

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Keep making excuses for the fact you've checked out of your marriage. You're a flake, your wife is ten times the man you are.

Keep on judging, jerk. I bet you're single and jerking that little pecker right now.

 

[Kano on the Phone]

Keep on judging, jerk. I bet you're single and jerking that little pecker right now.

This is the most random and hilarious white knighting ever.

 

[Replicant]

Achievement Unlocked: Homewrecker

Fixed. Sounds trashier this way, which is always better.

 

[xxjuicesxx]

Stop getting married...

Marriage is such an old old idea that barely works for most people anymore.

 

[Trellisaze]

Wow, this game is great! Thanks OP!

Agreed! Been hooked on this game since the OP came out. No luck with any lonely housewives yet, but maybe I need to upgrade to the paid version for that.