Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Let me prove my point

Do I need to draw a picture??? I had read an article and posted it on this blog about how men don't listen to what women say. Here is my point and it has been signed, sealed and delivered to the next level.
I was online and I was talking to my husband on the phone and when he asked what I was doing I told him that I was attempting to add some items to my Amazon wish list. I thought that I had planted the seed but instead of hearing me make references to my Amazon wish list he "chose" to only hear a portion of what I was saying. To verify my assumption I later asked him point blank if he remembered what I was doing when I was speaking to him earlier.........he said "you were on line". That is point #1, my husband DOES NOT pick up on subtle hints.
After about a week and a half of boiling over this listening/hearing issue that my husband suffers from I again pointed out that I had an Amazon wish list, this time I asked him first if he was listening to what I was saying and then I said..."today I added a few items to my Amazon wish list that I would like to have". To him this was the VERY first time he had actually heard any kind of mention about an Amazon wish list. This is point #2, my husband needs to be asked if he is listening before telling him anything that I feel is important. He "got it" after I had to blatantly point out that there was indeed a wish list out there.
This brings me to point #3....the email that I got today:



Hey baby,

I need to know how to look up what u want for C-mas on Amazon.com. I can go onto the
website but do not know how to find your list..... or you can just send me a
list of what u want.... hope u are having a good day and I LOVE
U

Husband




I just want to scream right now. I do not feel as though I am playing games with my husband, he should have the common sense and the EYES to SEE the wish list section on Amazon, now he needs me to hold his hand while he is attempting to look at the list that I had to blatantly tell him existed. It says WISH LIST in the middle of the freaking page!!! It is right there!!!!! Am I always going to have to be the mother? Maybe this is just one of MANY isolated incidents and my husband will "get it" one day but for right now can I trade him in or send him to some sort of boot camp?