How do you handle friends or co-workers who complain non-stop about their spouses? (person, wives)
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Are you around people who complain non-stop about their spouses or partners? How do you handle it?.... Do you just sit and listen to their rants and raves?....Do you try to offer them advice?....Do you ever feel weird because you don't want to join in and complain about your spouse too? Thanks...
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That depends completely on the situation. Sometimes I know it to be true, sometimes I think they're not seeing their own contribution to the reason for the complaining and so on. Sometimes I reply but without joining in on the bashing, sometimes I just listen.
Are you around people who complain non-stop about their spouses or partners? How do you handle it?.... Do you just sit and listen to their rants and raves?....Do you try to offer them advice?....Do you ever feel weird because you don't want to join in and complain about your spouse too? Thanks...
I ask why are they with them if they are not happy
and let them know I could stay with anyone who I didnt love me or I didnt love myself
Or just shake my head and say "Wow how interesting" and try and talk about something else.
Are you around people who complain non-stop about their spouses or partners? How do you handle it?.... Do you just sit and listen to their rants and raves?....Do you try to offer them advice?....Do you ever feel weird because you don't want to join in and complain about your spouse too? Thanks...
Oh heck yes, some of the guys I work with their wives call them at least 20 times a day! "Whatcha doin hon"? "Well, I was trying to take a crap before you called"!LOL....... "MMMMMM.... if she thinks I am cleaning up dog poop when I get home she is mistaken"! Just clean it up and be thankful you have someone! Geez!LOL.........
I should add deliberately doing something to aggravate her to the list as well. Like going to Lowe's or Home Depot after work to look at tools when they are supposed to be going out with friends that night. Geez, you guys create some of your own drama! If I was supposed to be home I would hold off on the "stroker quest" until tomorrow! Stroker quest= foundling and or massaging tools, guns, fishing gear or whatever hard core guy stuff almost bringing a "it's just like sex" mentality to it!LMAO........... Now you know what the term is coined ladies!LOL.......
Are you around people who complain non-stop about their spouses or partners? How do you handle it?.... Do you just sit and listen to their rants and raves?....Do you try to offer them advice?....Do you ever feel weird because you don't want to join in and complain about your spouse too? Thanks...
this may sound bad, but i wouldn't really care.
I respect and like my co-workers, but we're not family or close friends. so I would have no interest in stake in their spouses/marriages.
I also think that a person in the workplace should not disclose too much information about their home/personal life, since co-workers are not close (,i.e. they may not care either way), and it's generally not professional. I would suggest they talk to somebody, whether a friend, relative, or even a therapist about this.
I think some people have a need to "play victim." Spouses or partners come in handy for people like this...Kids and bosses come in handy too...or other friends etc...The message is always: "I am being picked on...I am treated badly...Help me....Help me...I am an innocent victim who is being abused by my loved ones....Feel sorry for me...Shower me with sympathy and attention...Be my protector....Take my side... Become part of my daily soap-opera....Give up your own life and be here for me" and so on...YUK! YUk! YUK! It sure gets "old."
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