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Backseat driver  

indymanandwife0 50M/49F
303 posts
3/27/2008 3:34 pm
Backseat driver


OK. when we decided to get into this "lifestyle" we decided that for many reasons, my wife would do the talking/arranging/meeting type stuff and I would just kind of hang out and when she felt I needed to meet a person, that i would then meet them. I don't chat on the messenger. I occasionally post on the boards, but she always knows. She reads the blogs. No issues.

I don't want to be the one doing the talking etc. I would probably bore most of the people she talks to in a matter of minutes. She is a social butterfly and so fun to talk to.

But damn..... I have been being a backseat driver lately. I know I am getting on her nerves

Normally when she is on the computer I am over on our loveseat which is close enough I can read a lot of the stuff on the computer. I normally am watching TV, reading, doing puzzles, playing video games that kind of stuff. Just occassionally reading up on the conversations and asking her questions.

I think it is the guy thing. That remote control hoarding, non map reading, take charge part of most men that is getting to me. I can say that she does a great job talking to people. As I have said before she has made some pretty damn good friends on this site and I can honestly say that any of the people she has talked to that I have met have been really good people. People that we enjoy hanging out with and talking to (not talking about the sex thing at all here)

Lately I have been overbearing. It is:
Hey, have you asked this
Hey, have you talked about this
Hey, why don't you say this
Hey, why didn't you respond this way.

OMG. if she was doing that while I was driving or while I was on the computer I my head would spin off of my shoulders and explode. She has been really patient with me lately. I think I am finally starting to get on her nerves. She really wants me involved. She wants my opinions on people and topics and discussions and things like that. She just doesn't want me grabbing the steering wheel and taking over, or pulling the on vacation thing (are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet)

I don't know if it is a control thing, or a wanting to be involved thing, or even a little lonely thing. I can honestly tell you my wife is my best friend. In every sense of the word. I really do not spend any time at all with other friends. We talk about anything and everything and I am very lucky to have her.

So I have been trying to modify my behavior lately. I have been not paying as much attention to the computer unless she asks me to. I have been asking questions but not offering much "advice". I have been wearing my MP3 player and reading and watching tv and playing games and doing whatever I need to do to keep my focus off of this computer screen.

indymanandwife0 50M/49F
221 posts
3/28/2008 3:07 pm

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Thanks. She is truly a wonderful woman and deserves way more sweetness than I could ever give her. Thanks for stopping by!


indymanandwife0 50M/49F
221 posts
3/31/2008 8:22 pm

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Although your car is roomy, I don't think the backseat would work for the three of us. LOL.

Thanks for the post


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