To make DH wear a pink dress to football match

[annthesurveyor]

First time I've posted a thread here, please be nice

I hate football with a passion. I have been to a football match (Everton v West Ham) with an ex BF and something momentous was meant to have happened during the game, but it went right over my head and I sat for 2 hours freezing cold and bored rigid. Me and the BF split up shortly after. I would rather have root canal work done than go to another football match.

My DH knows this and is trying to get me to go along to a QPR game. Finding babysitters aside, I'd much rather he went with his mates so I can girl-out for an evening with smelly bath salts, a soppy film, junk TV etc.

So, I've insisted that if he wants me to go to a football match with him, he's got to wear a pink dress. He has great legs and pink would really suit him, I've even offered to make the dress myself. I won't be seen dead at a football match - he won't be seen dead in a pink dress.

He thinks this is totally unreasonable, and I think the deal is more than reasonable. What do you think?

just tell him you would rather have the chas and be done with it

am a bit @ making him wear a dress. Despite the fact you offered to do the same its actually not the same is it?

Franny again - yes we have a 4 month old DD, I hope he will be able to take her in time because I'd like her to be encouraged to do sport if that's what she wants, and it gives chance for father/daughter bonding and an afternoon off for me. Mind you she has half my DNA so she could end up hating it too, I'll try not to offload my prejudices on to her too much!

CASH not chas!!

Franny - suggestions?

erm

if it was my dp I would invite him to come to some kind of new age workshop

preferably a really sharey one where you all hold hands and speak about your intimate thoughts and then channel your energies into pretending to be a whale or something

that would do the trick

Franny - good idea, but I wouldn't put it past him to make some kind of comment halfway through like "aren't you all going to take your clothes off and dance round naked?" and get me booted off the course

ask him to a book group

that should do the job

i would tell him to book an executive box with dinner included at the stadium first before you would even consider it,at least then you would be warm and get fed at the same time

Make him go to a scrapbooking class with you

MP - he'd like that too much. He's a big reader and can get very excited about a book he hates. He thought there were no worse authors than Wendy Holden, so I bought him a Kathy Lette book from a remainders basket to prove him wrong.

As they say at this time of year, light blue touchpaper and stand well back....

He's been offended by practically every page. I told him to stop reading if he gets upset, but he's carrying on with it. He's changed his view on Wendy Holden.

Lucky - actually that is a very good idea! I'd definitely be up for that. A nice glass of shiraz would dull the pain of the football and I could take my knitting!

why does he want you to go so badly?
the idea of my other half coming to the football is about as appealing to me as me moaning the whole way through sex and the city is to her. if you have no interest in it and aren't going to enjoy it what's the point?