Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 26, 2014

Oooh, you’re in deep doodoo now, Arlo!

Run.

I guess we can assume that Janis got her insurance o pay for a new phone

Was that the 2nd wife, or the third? :>

(facepalm) Oh Arlo, Arlo, Arlo… you were doing fine ’til that last panel there.

trouble in Paradise

Most of married’s “conversations” are white noise. Kind’a like they (we) are affirming our existence. Our voices are heard, if no place other than home.

We have a male friend who speaks as if he was only issued a certain number of words at birth, and is afraid he’ll use them up. Most answers are one word, and he frequently (almost always!) assumes his wife knows he wants a certain thing, and then gets hurt or upset when she can’t read his mind.

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It’s not so much that we don’t hear what they’re saying, it’s just that we don’t care.

Arlo has stepped in it now.

For men, women talking is like geese honking in flight. The noise tells you they are there, but the actual content isn’t important.

If all you “husbands” who think your comments and attitudes are all right, then, when your wives give just what you like, the silent treatment, why does that bother you? If I treat my hubby the same way, with no answer or monosyllabic answers, he gets defensive and accuses me of being angry. In all actuality, I get tired of all the “favors” he asks of me, when I get nothing in return. Isn’t it supposed to be give and take? Isn’t it supposed to be a partnership? What, really, does a woman get out of marriage? And don’t give me security and income. I already got that covered. Companionship? HA! Please, enlighten me, enlighten all of us poor women, so we don’t make the same mistake twice, or save some poor woman before she signs that license the first time.

Ha ha, good stunned expression in the fourth panel.

Just because we men don’t say it…doesn’t mean we think it or feel it.

incomming!

I am a woman that says very little it was the husband that made all that white noise.

And guess what, guys — this is why there are divorces and women who are happy not to be dating. And this results in a LOT of clueless, unhappy single men late in life who can’t believe that women like the company of those who they can talk to and expect a decent conversation in return (usually other women), and that out-of-work and/or stingy old retired guys whose claim to fame is bad sex and sitting on the couch every evening and all weekend are not all that attractive…

You gotta give attention to receive it back…

A wife gets tired of doing a monologue after a while. We say something and get no response, say something else and no response. Soon we look for a source of conversation that is two way, BOTH people talk.

John…. you and Linda both seem to be in very bad places with your marriages. I feel bad for both of you. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Other than when I have the noise aversive headaches (see above), I much prefer to talk with my wife than with anyone else in the whole world. I am able to be 100% fully myself with her, and she with me. With most other folks, I am always only some subset of who I fully am. My wife makes me whole.

“I’ve told the little woman many times”-Thereby suggesting the little woman filtered it out since you’ve had to tell over and over.-My beloved, on the other hand, sometimes goes to the far end of the house and begins to inform me of important matters, assuming I can hear. If I respond at all, she yells, “WHAT?”, to which I answer, “exactly”..‘Taint that I don’t wanna listen, just not getting through.

Stop digging, Arlo, just stop digging…

“I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to…I guess”

How many of you above have spouses who read these comments?

Well, it wouldn’t be so bad if you hadn’t faked interested and interesting conversation BEFORE we signed the papers! That is fraud! And apparently par for the course.