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A friend of mine was telling me about how her dad is like the average man in that he's always relying on his wife (her mother) for things he could figure out on his own.
Just the other day, she told me that he still doesn't know how to get to a supermarket they go to because he doesn't pay attention to how to get there when he's gone with his wife and never wants to go when his wife asks him to go with her. She also said that one night when they were getting ready to go to bed, her dad tells her mum that he'd need new toothpaste. Her mum glared at him and told him to go and get it, only for him to say that he was just telling her that he planned on getting it himself.
Her dad has diabetes and takes herbal remedies that are supposed to help......which are completely pointless because he eats so much fruit, drinks soft drinks and sugary juices regularly and eats a lot without any moderation. His wife, her (my friend) and her siblings keep telling her dad to watch what he eats and drinks. Sometimes he'll take the feedback well and promise to change, only to do the same thing minutes later. She told me that a few days ago, she got very angry with her dad for going to buy up to 10 bottles of juice from the supermarket. When she told him that they already had so much juice in the fridge, he told her that she was being rude to him and that she should've corrected him kindly. She's frustrated because this is the same man who will have health issues and need his family to take him to the hospital. Her mother is holding in her anger at her husband because she regularly warns him about his bad diet. Her mum tries to cook special meals for him to eat as a diabetic but he's never keen on eating them; preferring to eat things that are less healthy.
This man is just one of the many men who live badly and leave everything to their partners to figure out. He's just like most men who would not cope if they got divorced or if their wives died. Men like him irritate the hell out of me. No wonder so many women resent men. They're a nuisance.
Time for her mum to take out a generous life insurance policy on the husband and start ignoring him completely. That, or just divorce.
This reminds me of why I must leave my current job.
The lack of accountability is staggering.
This is one of my marriage nightmares besides domestic violence. I'm not even know this guy irl and can already feel my attraction going down the toilet. Also, he may know ehat he is doing, he just thinks dieting is girly and therefore gay. The lengths men will go to feel secure in their masculinity will shock you
Also wtf he can just use Google Maps by typing in Walmart or whatever. Unless he is an ancient boomer who can't even make a call on his iphone, I think this guy is just lying about not knowing as a control tactic
Just tell her to not become a hospice care child and advise her mother to not become a hospice care wife
"Let that nigga rot", is what I would have said
I wonder if we are friends because my dad just went through the exact same thing a few months back. He had a foot thing with diabetes and the doctor put him off work for 6 months over it. My dad has the eating habits of a CHILD. Drinks nothing but sugary drinks soda primarily. He never checked his blood sugar and did the whole folk medicine route. He'd drink up to 6 cans of soda a day and when anyone of me, my mom n siblings would point it out n remind him not to be doing that he'd act proud of it like his body was a "miracle"??
My mom recently got in a argument w him cause he didn't appreciate all the driving she did to his Dr appointment. I was in the midst of their argument cause I ended up having to drive my dad to and from work while my mom gave up on him lol. This makes me NEVER want to get married. Why are men like this? I've had health issues too but they rarely if ever came back if I fixed a diet behavior.