[Closed] Wifes/girlfriends/boyfriends/partners is it the month the otherhalf is bonkers ?

for 1 month of every year i have been married (20yrs), i feel like divorcing my wife, and going to live by myself in a cave.
the other 11 months of the year everything is cool.

after being married a long time, you get used to it........ 😀

yes its going to one of those few week moods...wheres this cave ? has it got central heating ?

Jan/Feb are always bad months it's cold, people are inside more, get ill more often as well as cash being tighter with them having to pay off Christmas.
So yes generally people seem more stressed/short tempered.

My wife and I are both mentalists anyway 😀

^ I am with ton. 18 years of marriage, she is ace, but every now and then one/both of us feels like giving up. BUT, that is commitment, innit? Worth it.
Mind, a heated cave sounds nice. Does it have a bike rack?

Yip. We are going to a 30th tomorrow night. I fully expect the night to end with us walking down opposite sides of the street, getting on separate buses and sleeping in separate beds. But hey, we love each other. 😀

Yeah mine seems to be possessed by something at the moment.

being trapped inside doesn't help. making up afterwards is cool though 😉

2 days ago I asked my girlfriend to marry me. She said 'yes'.
Bonkers, she could do far better. I'm happy though 🙂

emsz speaketh the truth............ 8)

Not only you. Any more room in that cave?

...round 48 !

Spent 3 hrs making dinner (goulash) put boys to bed cleared up (as I do every night) eats dinner okay for 5 mins then back at being possessed !

If I had a local that I wasn't afraid to go to Id be there now !

2 days ago I asked my girlfriend to marry me. She said 'yes'.
Bonkers, she could do far better. I'm happy though

As a wife myself, hubby regularly tells me that he can't do anything right in my view. This is all year though and not just February.
Better be nice to him now otherwise they'll be no St. Valentines pressy. Oh hang on a minute, that's something he never does too.

Only joking darling, you know I love you very much xxxxx

yes

I get 12 months of it.

Mental Welsh bird see, innit?

I raise you workshop, to add to cave, heating and bike rack 😯

Thanks bunnyhop 🙂

Any room in this cave? I'm a good cook and can help build the bike shed 😀
We have patches where I shake my head and wonder what goes on in her head. But 90% of the time she is the greatest. Luckily we are going through a great patch.

a big cave could be needed !

spooky.. was just about to start a thread titled wifes are mental... must be something with tonight.

Only mentioned I wanted to stay out next Wednesday night as I didnt realise that the Jedi coarse on Thursday was frikin miles from Sheffield and she went bonkers... I mean, its not like I've spent £12k on bikes or anything is it....

A mate and I have a plan to buy a cheap terrace nearby for these moments - referred to as the "DadPad". Big telly in the front room, bike workshop in the back room.

Mine's been better the last couple of months - returned to part time work after 8 years of childcare, started a bit of jogging to get ready for the sport relief mile, finally agreed to change my car, been quite nice. Mind you, I'm doing way more helping round the house/school runs etc now she is working, which is screwing my own work into the ground, big time!

Mind you, she went off on a random one at the weekend, saying if I bought another bike she'd leave me and the kids - normally she just threatens to throw me out, so at least the terms have improved.

And this time there were witnesses!

My missus is walking around ranting at the moment about everyone taking her for granted
Don't know what's keeping her though, she normally brings me a tea before now when I'm in my office

It's like group therapy. No longer do I feel alone.

*Virtual hugs and reassuring pats on the shoulders all round*

any room in this cave for me

I can tell stories about Norway and know how to hunt

She's not pregnant is she? There's nothing so nuts as a newly pregnant wife.

I can bring beer to the cave if there's room for one more.

I had the silent treatment yesterday evening because on Thursday night after getting the kids to bed I spent the rest of the evening in the kitchen washing up, cleaning and doing all the ironing, she stomped in at about 9:45 and said if I couldn't be bothered to sit with her (probably in silence in the living room while she watches some dross on tv) then she may as well go to bed. I wouldn't mind so much but at xmas she moaned that I never helped round the house and just sat in front of the telly all night!

After 15 years together I still have no idea how her mind works.

After 15 years together I still have no idea how her mind works.

Study carefully

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I hears ya MikeG, although my Mrs is non-stop cleaning & tidying etc but when she watches tv it'll be anything cookery related, followed by soaps, reality tv and then CSI type stuff none of which I'd particularly want to see. She's a nightmare when she's had a drink, doesn't like mtb etc and turns into a fvckin dragon with PMT.
But we still have loads in common and get along great most of the time.

Quick tip from 25 yearer here

Just tell them to "calm down" when they get a bit boisterous, they'll take your advice on board and be back to normal in no time

Trust me

Reading this I'm feeling really quite lucky!

I have a mental week about once a month. Top tip, when you are getting grief, don't turn around and say 'awwwww got the painters in?!' - it will only lead to more grief.

Walking off and leaving her to stew seems to be a workable short-term solution here. Yet to work out a legal longer-term solution....

she is definitely not pregnant !

mine goes mental about not tidying up after myself when cooking or something - she doesn't even give me chance to finish what I am doing before haiving a moan about said mess!

'Tidy as you go', she says.
I prefer to tidy when finished eating!

My wife really did go bonkers. On the anti-psychotics now 🙁

High Climber - You need to leave her to do the cleaning if she does that. She'll soon learn that cleaning up after your've finished eating is far better than not cleaning up at all. If she doesnt learn then its win win.

Mine is very nice about going nuts for a week per month and takes evening primrose which actually does seem to help her. I have the code red app on my phone which helps me enormously!

She's normally brilliant but she's 6 months pregnant now so she's all over the place

Oh well normality will soon return. I just head out on my bike if she gets too stressed cause for some reason she doesn't mind me riding????

I realise am in for a bad time when I wake up on a Sunday morning and the wife is making our bed when am in it.

there has to be more to life than this treatment... today was worse TBH.
FFS, I make £50+k per year, nice house - holiday every year, survived all that through recession, don't go on the piss with mates (ever), honestly I think I'm pretty OK but the treatment is getting shitty. I just wanna ride once a week and do 1 or 2 weekends away a year...but that appears to be intolerable behaviour akin to wife beating.

New spreadsheet started : House value - Mortgage outstanding / 2 = amount left for my own house.

Got a bollocking the other day for being gash at DIY. Even though I have put up loads of shelves. Fixed the slow water drainage in the bath, sticky on off switch in the shower. Really hacked me off tbh. And I do all.the cooking and wash the pots lol.
How long before someone comes on and tells me to mtfu :0)

simonm, thursday? as in this week??

Reasoning and common sense straight out of the window. Decides not to come home from London until it had been snowing for hours. Then moans that her car is stuck and the battery is flat and that I have to go and get her.

My "ultimate driving machine" is clearly sheeeeeit in the snow and I've left it buried nose first in a hedge

I'm going back to bed!

Ahhh the joys of two human beings, I used to think that a good relationship wasn't about the disagreements, they are inevitable and part of life, I used to think it was down to how you go about resolving those arguments.. Now, right now, if it wasn't thick snow I'd be digging up my patio and considering how deep the hole needs to be. 😉 Sod evening primrose or code red... Where's my shotgun.

... Only joking love, be right up in a tick.

TBF mine's pretty good she as a moan now and again, but i get to do most thing's without getting to much ear ache.she really is one in a million