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Exactly. I am on the other side of this in my marriage — my wife leaves her water glass out (sometimes for days) because she “might want to use it again”. It bo
by didgeoridoo 5y ago
Exactly. I am on the other side of this in my marriage — my wife leaves her water glass out (sometimes for days) because she “might want to use it again”. It bothered me, so I put it in the dishwasher. She didn’t like that, so I stopped doing it. And I got over the fact that there are sometimes six or seven half-full glasses around the house at any time, because I am not a petty psychotic who would take something so trivial to be representative of how my wife does or doesn’t respect me. Good lord.
- The-Bus 5y agoPlus, they protect you in the eventuality of an alien attack. Make sure you keep a bat around too.
- KineticLensman 5y ago> Plus, they protect you in the eventuality of an alien attack. Except when the aliens are ransacking Earth for its water. See the documentaries V [0] and Battle: Los Angeles [1] for more on this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle:_Los_Angeles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle:_Los_Angeles
- kingcharles 5y agoAnd Oblivion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)
- ceejayoz 5y agoI still want an explanation as to how the aliens in that movie managed to miss that 70% of the planet is covered by a deadly poison, and that it literally falls from the sky in most places.
- Jiro 5y agoThere's the theory that the aliens are really demons and it's not water they're vulnerable to, but holy water.
- ceejayoz 5y agoA kid is filling cups with tap water to drink. At what point is a priest blessing them all?
- BoppreH 5y agoThe main character is a former priest. I don't remember any explicit blessings, but maybe being in a (ex-)priests house is enough. Or they were blessed when the protagonist found his faith again. Or it was the daughter, who was constantly referred to as "angel".
- brewdad 5y agoMy in-laws had their house blessed by their priest shortly after moving in. They do the same with their cars. Perhaps a house, properly blessed, provides the necessary protection?
- snapcaster 5y agoBecause it was _holy_ water that damaged them because they are demons not aliens in the movie. There is actually no scene in that movie of a spaceship or anything that indicates it's aliens
- NhanH 5y agoI missed the joke. Which movie is this?
- BoppreH 5y agoSigns (2002).
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- dr_dshiv 5y agoSounds like a dream…
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- giantg2 5y agoMy wife put some water in the microwave for tea and left the room. When it was done, I put the tea ball in it and set the timer for her. Thinking that she would be back in the room in a few minutes and the timer would let her know it was ready. Instead of thank you for starting her tea, I was told I was "too controlling". Ok... I guess I won't do nice random things like start your tea from now on.
- xorcist 5y agoActing as if the tea was the core of the problem here is a sure way to get nowhere.
- giantg2 5y agoWhat do you mean?
- xorcist 5y agoA nice person making tea for you is never a problem for anyone.
- NateEag 5y agoIt sounds to me like your wife's reaction was not actually about the tea. If she described that as "too controlling", that likely indicates she perceives you as too controlling overall. Regardless of the truth of her perceptions, they're all she has to go on in life, so it's her perceptions that matter, not the "objective truth" of whether you're controlling. I don't know you or your wife at all - my analysis could be way off in a lot of ways. Whatever the issue here is, though, it's not the tea itself. There is some negative perception or idea she has that you triggered when you helped make her tea. I strongly recommend you try to figure out what's beneath the surface there. It could be rooted in your behaviors, or it might go back to how other people in her life have treated her, or some combination. It could be that she's a flaming control freak who can't stand anyone doing anything that seems to her like a threat to her agency. I don't have enough context to have much of a clue. Writing it off with "Okay, not gonna do that again" internally was a dangerous pattern for me - it led me to ignore issues for years instead of trying to deal with them head-on. Warning: For me, dealing with these issues head-on was a painful, difficult road littered with ugly realizations about both myself and my spouse. Dealing with the pain and issues now beats waiting until they're worse down the road, though. I found Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication extremely helpful in learning to dig into what's under the surface of incidents like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication