- Dec 3, 2012
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My g/f found a website called Pinterest about 8 months ago, and it's been slowly ruining my relationship. For those of you not familiar, it's a website where women put links up to little projects they do around the house, cooking recipes, and arts and crafts type bullshit. And since she found it, she's decided that everything in our house needs to be redone the way these other women do their houses. Everything in the house now needs to be put in a basket, a cleverly repurposed container, or put in a small bucket that is hung from a wire cooling rack that is hung on the wall. And I'm losing my fucking mind.
At first I didn't realize what was happening. I just thought when she said "I'm thinking about doing a project this weekend", that she meant SHE was going to do some stupid project that I don't understand. After a few months I found out that when she has a project she wants to do, that really means she has a project that she wants ME to do this weekend. Our relationship took a steep downturn while I was figuring this out.
And now that I've figured it out, our relationship is still going downhill. I'm sick of her stupid projects and that we suddenly need to spend hundreds of dollars on stuff for these "organizational projects" that are supposed to make our lives "so much easier". Especially since they're all supposed to be "cheap, easy fixes". Sure, if you already have $300 in 3M command hooks and antique wire metal baskets laying around the house. Or if you know where to get an antique decorative ladder on the cheap. Now we suddenly NEED a nightlight in the fucking living room that's made from repurposed stained glass, because "it's cute." Apparently the 3 lamps that she leaves on all night in the living room aren't bright enough.
I had a legitimate impulse to punch her tonight while we at Lowe's, getting parts for yet another project that serves no fucking purpose, but that we suddenly cannot function without. I would never actually do it, but it's honestly the first time I've ever felt that impulse toward her, and it upsets me that she's driving me to feel like that.
Anyway, I'm just venting. But, has anyone else been dealing with the same thing? Just curious.
At first I didn't realize what was happening. I just thought when she said "I'm thinking about doing a project this weekend", that she meant SHE was going to do some stupid project that I don't understand. After a few months I found out that when she has a project she wants to do, that really means she has a project that she wants ME to do this weekend. Our relationship took a steep downturn while I was figuring this out.
And now that I've figured it out, our relationship is still going downhill. I'm sick of her stupid projects and that we suddenly need to spend hundreds of dollars on stuff for these "organizational projects" that are supposed to make our lives "so much easier". Especially since they're all supposed to be "cheap, easy fixes". Sure, if you already have $300 in 3M command hooks and antique wire metal baskets laying around the house. Or if you know where to get an antique decorative ladder on the cheap. Now we suddenly NEED a nightlight in the fucking living room that's made from repurposed stained glass, because "it's cute." Apparently the 3 lamps that she leaves on all night in the living room aren't bright enough.
I had a legitimate impulse to punch her tonight while we at Lowe's, getting parts for yet another project that serves no fucking purpose, but that we suddenly cannot function without. I would never actually do it, but it's honestly the first time I've ever felt that impulse toward her, and it upsets me that she's driving me to feel like that.
Anyway, I'm just venting. But, has anyone else been dealing with the same thing? Just curious.