Date: September 30th, 2026 10:34 AM Author: pungent dragon
here's the disconnect. to your wife, her little email job is a source of great pride and contentment. She doesn't actually "do" anything so there are no expectations or stress. It's just like a familiar place she goes to chat with people, eat lunch, and purely by happenstance get a paycheck from time to time. She naturally assumes this is some sort of universal experience.
The idea that you would want to retire from this situation is at best incomprehensible to her and, at worst, implies some sort of deeply buried fundamental moral flaw - most likely that you are a pornography addict.
Date: September 30th, 2026 10:46 AM Author: mustard coldplay fan french chef
Buddy, I contemplate suicide every single day. Cranking one out occasionally to a naughty clip of some random genre on pornhub is one of my very few joys.
Date: September 30th, 2026 10:48 AM Author: pungent dragon
well this is just confirming, to her, that the issue is you. remember also that if you divorce the judge will order you to maintain "full & gainful employment" for the rest of her natural life to ensure she is well supported, particularly once your ip logs come out in discovery
Date: September 30th, 2026 11:31 AM Author: Nubile rehab
My SAHM wife has a related problem: She wants to go back into the workforce, perhaps when our youngest is in kindergarten. We (i.e., I) make plenty of money, so we don't need the small amount extra she would make. Half of that money she would make would immediately go to taxes, before we even see it. And most of the rest would go to childcare. And yet, she wants to go back to writing slide decks about quarterly marketing spend instead of taking care of the kids, supporting them, managing activities, and enjoying free time while they're at school.
Date: September 30th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: pungent dragon
yes because they intuit correctly that the workplace as set up for white collar women is actually *easier* and lower stress than actually doing their real job. this is why she dgaf about her salary; it's basically beside the point
Date: September 30th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Citrine Pea-brained Address
If you have the means you should set yourself up with a “fake job”
I’m getting ready to do this because I can’t stand my live in girlfriend sometimes and she’s insufferable. I WFH a lot and it’s been awful this last year or so. Before that she would still spend 3-4 days a week at her house so I could bear it.
I want to get a cheap old office building with an apartment on top of it or a couple commercial units so it can pay for itself and then start going in three days a week. Set up an office in the space that’s tasteful. She has no idea what my job is so it’s believable, and I might actually get something more productive done.
I didn’t believe it at first but I think a lot of advancements are made by men who simply want to avoid their wives.
It’s truly insane how women crush your dreams for their parasitic vanity.
Date: September 30th, 2026 1:14 PM Author: pungent dragon
this is what 90% of older lawyers do ime. time was they'd just sit in the office and read the paper, I guess for our generation it'll be n-threading. same basic concept
Date: September 30th, 2026 2:03 PM Author: Citrine Pea-brained Address
I understand that line of thinking and for a lot of men it makes sense.
I have enough hobbies and other intellectual pursuits where I would benefit from a setup like this; as well as the freedom to be a piece of shit when I want to.
I come from a long line of men that had mistresses or were absent fathers to various degrees - but were also paradoxically family men. I need an heir and my line to continue - but I also need some damned peace for myself. I love my girlfriend but her having so much access to me is detrimental. I don’t want to go back into the dating pool for some wretched blown out piece of shit shrew or some bimbo. Social media and popular culture has caused a cognitive homogenization of the female gender - they’re all the same.
Men frequently traveled or had male-only spaces to congregate at on a regular basis. These spaces have turned into walking memory care institutions due to member age, have shut down, been infiltrated by women, fagged out or are otherwise ineffective at this point.
The unfortunate truth is that I need a damned lair or cave from which to conduct my affairs in the sweet embrace of self imposed solitude. To read, write, worship God - away from any nonsense or idiocy for a solid 6 to 8 hours a day. Is that too much to ask? Plus I have so many dangerous or highly valuable things like guns/knives/machinery that i need to store them away from my home and any women or children.