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11 “Don’t-Tell-the-Wife” Secre

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

I was cleaning up my mailbox when i found this article in the Draft folder. Am wondering why I never got to send this to my friends. Anyway, the article is a good read. Maybe the guys can pick up a thing or two….or the perennial bff can confirm a few

11 “Don’t-Tell-the-Wife” Secrets All Men Keep

Feature from “Redbook” Magazine By Ty Wenger

…in the interest of uniting the sexes, we’ve scoured the country for guys willing to share the private truths they wouldn’t normally confess. Some are a bit crass. Some you’ve always suspected. Some are surprisingly sweet. (Guys don’t like to reveal the mushy stuff, either.) But read on, and you may discover that the truth about men isn’t all that ugly.

Secret #1: Yes, we fall in lust 10 times a day — but it doesn’t mean we want to leave you

Secret #2: We actually do play golf to get away from you

Secret #3: We’re unnerved by the notion of commitment, even after we’ve made one to you

Secret #4: Earning money makes us feel important

Secret #5: Though we often protest, we actually enjoy fixing things around the house

Secret #6: We like it when you mother us, but we’re terrified that you’ll become your mother

Secret #7: Every year we love you more

Secret #8: We don’t really understand what you’re talking about

Secret #9: We are terrified when you drive

Secret #10: We’ll always wish we were 25 again

Granted, when I was 25 I was working 16-hour days and eating shrimp-flavored Ramen noodles six times a week. But as much as we love being with you now, we will always look back fondly on the malnourished freedom of our misguided youth. “Springsteen concerts, the ‘91 Mets, the Clinton presidency — most guys reminisce about the days when life was good, easy and free of responsibility,” says Rob Aronson, 41, of Livingston, New Jersey, who’s been married for 11 years. “At 25 you can get away with things you just can’t get away with at 40.”

While it doesn’t mean we’re leaving you to join a rock band, it does explain why we occasionally come home from Pep Boys with a leather steering-wheel cover and a Born to Run CD.

Secret #11: Give us an inch and we’ll give you a lifetime

I was on a trip to Mexico, standing on a beach, waxing my surfboard and admiring the glistening 10-foot waves, when I decided to marry the woman who is now my wife. Sure, this was three years before I got around to popping the question. But that was when I knew.

Why? Because she’d let me go on vacation alone. Hell, she made me go. This is the most important thing a man never told you: If you let us be dumb guys, if you embrace our stupid poker night, if you encourage us to go surfing — by ourselves — our silly little hearts, with their manly warts and all, will embrace you forever for it.

And that’s the truth.

http://men.webmd.com/features/11-dont-tell-the-wife-secrets-all-men-keep

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