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Why do some women insist in treating grown men like children?

  • 05-10-2024 01:38PM
    #1
    Will Graham
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    I was at a function recently. We were eating at a table that contained a bowl of vegetables in the centre. This auntie in law of mine was at one side of the circular table to me. I would have been talking and eating on my side of the table as she would've been doing so on her side. Then at one point, with reference to the veg, she says "do you want some more John?" as if I'm too stupid to realise that I can just take it myself. I couldn't have pictured her saying this to anyone else at the table. What goes through some people's heads when they ask something like this? I could be the CEO of a company and I know she'd speak to me the same way. The same woman has never worked a day in her life.

    Post edited by JupiterKid on


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  • #2
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,267 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I'd be her nephew



  • #3
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Because we'll always be children in the eyes of our mammies and aunties.

    And our children will always be children in our eyes too.



  • #4
    AyeGer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭AyeGer


    I think you are overthinking this one.



  • #5
    Raichų
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    An here it’s not as if she went

    Oh John you didn’t finish your veg!! Here comes the aeroplaneeeeee jet noises

    she just asked if you wanted some more, big deal!



  • #6
    who what when
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭who what when


    So she asked you if you'd like some more food? The b1tch!



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  • #7
    Raichų
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687226#Comment_122687226

    the whole post you can see who the real problem is anyway.

    “Never worked a day in her life…” she offered you some veg man. I don’t think you realise what a c u next Tuesday you are being here.



  • #8
    junkyarddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 958 ✭✭✭junkyarddog


    Imagine someone being thoughtful and caring in this day and age.

    Disgusting!



  • #9
    T-Maxx
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    She was asking John, not you. Why are you even upset about that? Or is it the fact that she called you John instead of Will?e



  • #10
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,927 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    Imagine having such a warped world view that you're look for misandry in every act of thoughtfulness.



  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OP, you come across as rather unhinged. I mean "What goes through some people's heads when they ask something like this?" - wondering if you want more vegetables is "something like this"?

    She has never worked a day in her life? I'd bet she has, and then stopped to raise children. But what - even slight - relevance does that have?



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  • #12
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Last time my aunt asked me if I wanted vegetables I had security eject her from the premises immediately, she hasn't done it again since. I strongly suggest you do the same.

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #13
    dxhound2005
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058372423/why-do-some-women-insist-in-treating-grown-men-like-children

    Your auntie in law is some woman.



  • #14
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,717 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Wtf is an auntie in law???



  • #15
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,458 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Conviviality at a meal? What is she, Italian? We'll have none if that foreign nonsense at our tables, thank you very much. The thought of sharing the enjoyment of a meal. shudder



  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687404#Comment_122687404

    I assume it means uncle's wife.



  • #17
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,120 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687404#Comment_122687404

    Okay. Growing up I'd have said Auntie Dial Hard and Uncle Ten of Swords.

    However I was told this was wrong

    The person who is a related to you would be your one of your parents brothers in this case it be Uncle Ten of Swords and his wife would be Auntie in law Dial Hard.

    Sorry for confusing you more and if I misgendered anybody.



  • #18
    radiotrickster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 929 ✭✭✭radiotrickster


    She wasn't treating you like a child. She was being considerate. Sounds like you've a big chip on your shoulder there, OP.



  • #19
    Ten of Swords
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687539#Comment_122687539

    Damn, sounds like my bro has some 'splaining to do, when did that happen?

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #20
    Kurooi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭Kurooi


    What she did was a power play, "You will eat on my say so" . You have to respond, hard and fast, or else you will lose your spot in the hierarchy.

    I would have said loudly "YES AUNT I WILL HAVE MORE VEG". Grab everyones attention, then proceed to eat the veg off HER PLATE, make eye contact, be obnoxious, spit the carrot tops back at her.



  • #21
    freshpopcorn
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687643#Comment_122687643

    At a dinner party with an over entuastic woman pushing vegetables spiked with Viagra on him.



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  • #22
    tabby aspreme
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    She sounds like a Vegan, pushing Veg on young lads



  • #23
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,152 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    The irony here OP is your complaining about your aunt in law treating you like a child yet the thread you started here about the situation is pretty childish.



  • #24
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,717 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687539#Comment_122687539

    There's no such thing as an aunt in law. Your uncle's wife is just that, your uncle's wife.

    OP may have also been referring to his wife's aunt, but again, that's all she is to him. Aunt-in-law is the most stupid thing I've ever heard.

    And don't even get me started on the word "Auntie". Ugh.



  • #25
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,120 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687788#Comment_122687788

    Well that's what it is to me.



  • #26
    SteM
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    You could be the CEO of a company. My guess is you're not the CEO of a company.



  • #27
    watchclocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭watchclocker


    Is there a full moon tonight?



  • #28
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    Ah carrot on leeks . . Peas stop picking on the poor potatoe, can't you broccoli he's very sensitive to how spinach say to him.



  • #29
    Raichų
    Site Banned Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Raichų


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687788#Comment_122687788

    In my family and my partners your aunt or uncle’s husband/wife once they are married are now your uncle/aunt

    Is that not just the way for everyone like? I can’t imagine introducing my aunt and uncle and saying

    Here’s my auntie Jane & her husband John🤣 that’s my aunt and uncle Jane & John.

    Such a silly thing to get your piss boiled over.



  • #30
    Raichų
    Site Banned Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Raichų


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122687539#Comment_122687539

    same for myself. I’d even go as far to say referring to an aunt or uncle by marriage as “my aunts husband” say, would just be really mean? Like you’re basically telling them they’re not part of the family.

    anyway if I want to call someone my aunt or uncle regardless of blood relative that’s my choice. I wouldn’t accept being told I’m wrong either because how can I be wrong? It’s my family you can’t tell me how to address them 🤣



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  • #31
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,651 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    If that's the biggest issue that you are dealing with this weekend, OP - your aunt being polite and considerate at the dinner and you getting your knickers in a twist - then you've not got that much to worry about...



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