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Saturday, April 07, 2007
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
How Wives Can Kill Their Marriage: The Final Straw
by Doug Giles
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I think the world is coming to an end. I didn’t come to this conclusion simply because a lot of people actually read and like my column, but primarily because of the tons of positive emails I’m getting from former livid ladies confessing their remorse for their previous acts of husband hating. It’s crazy. It must be global warming causing all these ex-ice queens to melt and warm up to their men. See, global warming ain’t all that bad, Al. Anyway, enough of the happy crap. . . .

I want to continue to feed the wives who want to snuff the life out of their marriage and make that thing more tedious that listening to Sanjaya sing, “Riders on the Storm.”

Having covered “nag your husband and disparage him in public” in part one and “how to drive him nuts by short leashing him, becoming a drama queen, hating his friends and hating his hobbies” in part two, I now offer you (the bellicose beastesses of husband hatred) the final four fundamentals that will make your husband prefer being bitten on the crotch by a black mamba to your blah, blah, blah.

7. Cut him off sexually. Another great way to make your man hit a depressed state that is only eclipsed by the one Rosie O’Donnell’s proctologist deals with is to cut him off from hot relations. I mean, give him nada. Guys will stomach some nagging, getting short leashed, multitudinous Naomi Campbellesque dramatic outbursts and your general disinterest of his interests—as long as you rock his world in the bedroom. Yes, most men are that easy.

Your job, Jezebel, is to ruin your marriage; therefore, it’s not enough to rag and ridicule him and then run his friends off. No, you must go the second mile and turn into the Sex Nazi: “No sex for you!”

Yes, your goal, Cold Ethel, is to make Hillary Clinton look like Jenna Jameson. I’m talkin’ about shutting the sex factory downnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Cutting him off sexually will intensify his marital angst and could, if you’re lucky, help push him over the temptation edge into an affair or into a crazy porn addiction or some other soul unraveling behavior like doubting his manhood, his sanity or his reasons for falling in love with you in the first place. Pretty cool, eh?

If you do ever have sex with your husband, you’ve got to make sure it’s not out of love for him or the desire to have fun and enjoy his intimate company, but rather as the means to some sinister, manipulative end. Make your hubby sexually pay until he obeys. Here’s what ‘cha gotta do. When he locks step to your wishes (I mean to the “T”), then, and only then, do you dole out a little sexual treat. Get that whole Pavlov’s dog thing going with him.

Under no circumstances should you show appreciation, be tender, fun, amorous and adventurous or do any other thing that’ll keep the love flame lit. TLC, if injected into the marriage mix, will cause the two of you to have a healthy sexual relationship, which obviously helps a marriage (plus burns calories)—and that would completely derail your desires for marital misery.

8. Get your parents and/or siblings involved in your marriage. Forget this leave and cleave stuff the Bible dictates. If you want your union to unravel then you’ve got to gang tackle your husband with la familia. For example: if you, as a couple, have a major decision to make, seek counsel and opinions only from your mom and dad, rather than your husband. This will give him that stooge/stepchild feeling of useless stupidity that is, FYI, a great alienating agent.

Also, does your husband need a job and does your dad own a business? What a great opportunity! Get your dad and his company to hire your husband. This will eventually require your husband to obey you at all times, because now he owes his monetary butt to you and daddy.

Lastly, do not under any circumstance attempt to work out your marital problems between just you and your man. Rather, get your angry sisters, your lard butt brother and your mother who’s nuttier than a squirrel turd to weigh in. Once conflict occurs, surround him in a scrum of familial disapproval. If not stopped, this clustering of belligerent kin against your husband will eventually do in the marriage. Since your goal is to tear down your own house, you probably need to call mama right now and complain about something your husband’s done. If he hasn’t done anything negative lately, just dig up something he did in the past. Or put a little twist on something he did with good intentions and make it seem like it was done on purpose to ruin your life. Continued...

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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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compromise...?
I just read this article for the first time, and I'm trying to see where all the hostility is coming from? If this were a woman bashing men (as SO much mass media does nowadays), would the women's responses be so aggressive?

Now, before all the crosshairs train themselves upon me, I am a husband and father of four children. I do dishes, I wash laundry (given enough time between homework, dinner and baths I even fold and put it away), and am very active in their upbringing. I go to school in the day, so I can handle most of the household duties, and work at night. Anyone who says domestic duties are easy don't do them enough... Anyway - I'm getting off track - I still encounter the majority of the items touched (and joked) upon by Doug from my own wife. So how do you explain that? I must be messing things up somehow, right...?

I do believe that there IS a conspiracy in modern American society to destroy our family and relationship foundations in favor of the materialistic, self-absorbed "what-have-you-done-for-me-lately" type of folks running around here, who seem only interested in instant gratification.

I respect my wife as a woman, wife, and mother. I show it and prove it to her as often as possible. But somedays, it seems like she's hell-bent on proving to the world that I've committed some heinous crime(s), and that I must be exposed and destroyed. And it usually occurs after she watches Oprah. Coincidence...? Maybe.

Bottom line, I think it's time to stop pointing fingers, ignore all the bullcrap being feed to us by mass media, and get back to relating to one another, based upon how we are treated on an individual basis - not some mob mentality saying the majority men or women are like "this," and that you better get them before they get you.

Let's get it together ya'll, before we kill ourselves off because our children will be so screwed up they won't want to procreate...

The point is good, the tone is bad
Mr. Giles makes some great points in this series regarding the negative consequences of typically female behavior in relationsips. And I agree the men have been dumped on for too long in the "who ruined the relationship" debate. However his tone leaves something to be desired.

I am sure he means to be funny, and if this were spoken aloud with the correct inflections and body language it would be hysterical--however the flaw with the written word is that there arn't any of those non-verbal cues as to intent. This means that if some misogynistic fool (there are many reading TownHall given previous comments I have read) wants to take you seriously and place unreasonable demands on his wife, while taking no responsibility for the relationship's health on himself, he can point to your words to support his actions. And you will have contributed to the overall misery of the world--hers during the marriage and his after the inevitable divorce, not to mention the ongoing problems if there are children involved.

Mr. Giles probably doesn't care about any of this, however I feel it is necessary to respect the power of words and point out when others are using that power irresponsibility.
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