Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests Am I over-reacting? (GF issue)

how can someone NOT watch TLC, HIST, DISC Health, Disc... etc... ( oh and animal planet) I LOVE all the useless knowledge I gain from those shows. Those are my favorite channels ..

Well,

I watch Spongebob Squarepants with my girl.

But then she's my 3year old daughter.

TB

You're the kind of daddy I hope to be one day

Spongebob Squarepants ROOLZ! Actually even at 21 I find the show humerous, hard to say about most crappy cartoons nowadays.

Kim, I meant to say "A Man in a woman's body" I guess that whole not sleeping for 36 hrs thing effected me.

Glad to hear it worked out Rynn

Since I've hijacked this thread too, I think Spongebob is a sitcom for kids.

Significant social commentary and of course, there is usually a moral in every story as well.

Almost as good as Bugs Bunny was when I was a kid.

TB
37 years of watching cartoons.

LOL - sounds like my daughter and I.

Have her buy it, and put it the garage, guest room or storage.

Are ya ready, kids?

I put on Pirate Pete's voice and my kids and I drive along singing the Spongebob theme song!

How would you Know!

LOL!

Good Luck Rynn! She won't change so if it bothers you that much you really should move on. better no than later.

Sponge Bob Square pants RULZ JUO!

-Andy

Rynn, good way to handle it, let's hope it sticks. Anyone here ever take the Meyers-Briggs personality test or something similar? Tests like this help us to understand how we make decisions. In your GF's case, sounds like she's more of an emotional decision maker than a logical decision maker. I learned this during my pre-marital counselling, that when it comes to decisions, my wife ultimately relies more on how she feels than any logical sequence of rules and regulations, whereas I am more logic oriented in my decisions. This doesn't mean my wife doesn't understand the logic and my reasoning, but in the end she still feels the way she does about it and that's her primary decision method, whereras no matter how I may feel about it, my logic sequences will ultimately overrule how I feel about something. This isn't a 100% thing all of the time, sometimes I can impulse buy just like anyone else, but overall, this is part of our personality make ups and it helps to understand all this when you get into a marriage. It's good to see that you guys could sit down and deal with it calmly (took me about 4 years to learn how to do this and we still get in arguments over her emotional spending). In the end I learned that, since I'm a peacemaker by default, I'd bail her out almost every time, which prevented her from ever having to bear consequences of bad decisions. Now, when she overspends and runs out of money, she has to solve the problem herself (I should mention here that we no longer use credit cards), i.e. take things back, appeal to the higher court for additional funds (I'm the judge here), generate additional monies somehow, etc. I know it probably sounds bad, but the basic idea is entirely sound, that if we don't bear consequences for our actions, we have no motivation to change. Since you seem to be a peacemaker and give in from time to time, I figured I'd relay my bad experience with peacemaking and the faulty logic that it utilizes. All that said, best of luck in your relationship, none are perfect, and opposites often attract, which makes for difficult areas of conflict, but great makeup times!