There are some truths in life that there’s just no escaping. Here’s a few which I think all women should realise (if they don’t already):
1. Ask a man to do something several times and you’re nagging. If he repeatedly asks you for something, he’s simply cajoling or persuading. Don’t fight it. It will always be thus
2. Expensive gym membership is all very well, but it only actually works if you go (and stop stuffing so much food down your gob)
It’s OK. I jogged to the burger bar and home again!
3. You can look like a supermodel, but if a guy is going to cheat he will cheat. Don’t beat yourself up or wonder if you could have changed things. Move on. You deserve better (And the other woman may be smug in the beginning, but he’ll do it to her too!)
4. Plan, meditate, make CDs of peaceful whale noises all you like, but in the end, the birth of your baby will feckin’ hurt. You won’t be singing along to Enya or channelling your inner goddess. You’ll be screaming and channelling your inner need to slice your man’s bits off with a rusty knife. Get through it any way you can
TURN THOSE F***ING PAN PIPES OFF
5. You will never have it all. Society is there to make you feel guilty if you stay at home, guilty if you have a career, guilty if you don’t have kids, guilty if you do and you’re not the perfect mum…. Men are never as judged as women. Try to let go of the guilt and enjoy what you have, and doing the best you can with it
For more great truths, according to more great women, pop on over to KateTakes5
Annoyingly no 4 doesn’t always seem to be true, according to other Mums in the post natal ward who get very smug when you tell the anaesthetist that she ‘saved your life’ lol
They’re lying honey. Seriously. First time around I was in an ante-natal class with all of these hypnobirthing mums-to-be.
When it came to the crunch, a fair few of them took a shot of pethidine or something to take the edge off the agony – even though they’d spent a fortune on a programme to try to get them through it drug free.Me? I had a full on epidural both times. HOLY SHIT childbirth bloody hurts!
And I made a CD of my fave tunes – but can’t remember listening to any of ‘em
Very wise – all of them. Number 3 reminds me of the saying that when a man marries his mistress he creates a job vacancy.
True. Have to say I learned that one from my father – not any of my boyfriends or my husband.
Dad ditched my Mum (and me) to marry his girlfriend and have a new family. I was 17 when his wife discovered a string of affairs and threw him out. I might have been smug – had it not been for the fact he’d shattered the lives of 2 more children.
1 and 5 resonate particularly. In my experience asking spouse/offspring to clear up a mess they’ve made (‘nagging’) is a far worse crime than leaving the mess in the first place!
Isn’t it just? But if they hate us ‘nagging’ so much, why don’t they listen and respond the first bloody time?*tears hair out*
Point one, my head nearly fell off from nodding – one interpretation for us (nagging) and another for them! bah!
My husband says he’s “gently persuading” when he tells me to do something several times. Grrrrrrr
Wise wise words. Nearly had a version of number one in my own list.
It was the only one I had for a long time – not that I’m bitter about the imbalance between men and women when it comes to bad stereotypes *seethes inwardly*