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The Tedious Married Man's Script

278 replies

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 13/09/2021 01:21

Bloke I work with - I have always really liked him and never had any creepy vibes off him. Appeared to be good at his job, pleasant company and if he did mention his wife it was in a nice way.

Tonight, texts around tea time about work stuff. Turned into "my wife doesn't understand me"

Yawn.

Honestly, does he think it's original? I'm nearly 50. Been hearing this shit from married me for 35 years. Yawn.

OP posts:
eekbumbler · 13/09/2021 05:12

same here, married man 38 years old for married when he was in his 20's,... 2 young kids.

47 and single... kids grown up - wow you're hot for your age... oh and the best one - many a good tune played on an old fiddle!!

Wow, I just squirted... and it was coffee out of my mouth mate. Do one.

MaudebeGonne · 13/09/2021 05:26

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

Gawd, I'm just annoyed with myself.

We have to make a video for work. "You are really photogenic, that makes it easy"

"you are 50? No way!"

"Im not wearing as well as you are, I'm going deaf. It's congenital"

"is there anything unusual about your body?"

OH FOR FUCKS SAKE.

" Unusual about my body? Funny you should mention it actually. Have you heard of vagina dentata?"
HopeYourHighHorseBucks · 13/09/2021 05:48

Ooo I like this game.

"If it werent for my kids we would have been split ages ago" but if they do manage to get an affair partner, they spend most of their time planning ways of ditching wife and kid days.

"The divorce will get messy and I will lose everything" yes and when you are caught cheating that will (more than likely) happen too.

"We live like friends" yes and you are a very disloyal one ya bastard. With friends like that ay!

groovergirl · 13/09/2021 05:59

"I could teach you so much about life ...''
"I worry about you, nearly 25 and not married. I'm worried you'll end up alone."
"My wife is about to have a baby -- you can't expect me to ask her for sex!"
"What you silly young girls don't realise is that you'd be so much better off with a mature man."
"Men go crazy between the ages of 40 and 50. Society should just forgive us for everything."
"Really -- you're going out tonight with a bunch of girls? Don't you have a man to take you out?"

Heard all these and more in my 20s. Yeuch!

MsTSwift · 13/09/2021 06:14

My worst was in my twenties and gorgeous (ha) at his own engagement drinks a work colleague told me that if he had any sort of chance with me he would bin his fiancée! He looked and acted like Jacob Rees Mogg I had not and did not display any evidence of fancying him in the slightest. Quite the opposite! Poor fiancée though..

Etherel · 13/09/2021 06:18

Make P!nk's U And Ur Hand your new ringtone and ask him to call you more often Grin

ThreeProngedPowerpoint · 13/09/2021 06:22

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

So fucking disappointing.

Must not have occurred to him to just have an angry wank like an adult.

😂😂😂 dying at angry wank
littleloopylou · 13/09/2021 06:42

They are so pathetic

confettiballoons · 13/09/2021 06:44

This thread is bringing me so much joy I’m placeholding for later, thank you all Flowers

YouJustDoYou · 13/09/2021 06:48

"We haven't even slept together for years/sleep in separate rooms" hmmm, sure bud.

PurpleEchoLamp · 13/09/2021 06:57

My wife has vaginismus. Not bloody surprised mate! Mine clamped shut as soon as you said that!

AngelDelightUk · 13/09/2021 06:57

It really is amazing the amount of married men who lead “totally separate lives” from their wives and are “more like housemates really”

TheVanguardSix · 13/09/2021 07:00

"We haven't even slept together for years/sleep in separate rooms" hmmm, sure bud.

They leave out the bit where they've shelved their wife for hardcore porn, thus forcing her into a sexless marriage without her say. At least, that's my scenario. Gave that fucker (now ex-husband... oh I loooove the sound of that!) the boot 2 weeks ago and it's been utter bliss seeing the back of him... Goodbye, Volvo driving, midlife crisis-dwelling, pornhub addicted assclown! See you in court! Honk honk! Wave!

YouJustDoYou · 13/09/2021 07:04

Goodbye, Volvo driving, midlife crisis-dwelling, pornhub addicted assclown! See you in court! Honk honk! Wave!

😂😂😂😂😂

Eralos · 13/09/2021 07:05

Gross

TheSockMonster · 13/09/2021 07:05

Poor lamb, he just needs someone who understands what a special little solider he is.

Creepy married-with-kids boss’s boss who I was trapped in a car with when I was 21:

Creep: I made £X in bonuses last year.
Me (politely disinterested): That’s nice.
Creep: My wife doesn’t think I earn enough.
Me (considers): Well you do put in a lot of hours, so your hourly rate is probably quite modest.

I’d like to say it was a clever answer, but I was quite literal at that age and the whole thing went straight over my head. He also had a habit of coming up behind me and the other younger women and massaging our shoulders.

I’m sure his wife didn’t understand him either or she’d have divorced him

IceLace100 · 13/09/2021 07:05

They're SO predictable and boring.

But think they're a special snowflake no one understands. Bless.

Pinklioness · 13/09/2021 07:06

"My wife is just a drudge these days and caught up with the kids"

Maybe because they're two and five and she's got a lot on her plate picking up your pants?

"I'm often meeting girls while I'm away as I'm a travelling salesman"

Oh that makes you extra alluring fella. Love to be part of your harem. You haven't even taken your wedding ring off, you're overweight, dad dancing and a bit sweaty, why wouldn't a twenty something like me want to snap you up?

Does this routine work with anybody?

IceLace100 · 13/09/2021 07:07

"Creep: I made £X in bonuses last year.
Me (politely disinterested): That’s nice.
Creep: My wife doesn’t think I earn enough.
Me (considers): Well you do put in a lot of hours, so your hourly rate is probably quite modest. "

💀absolutely dead.

PurpleOkapi · 13/09/2021 07:08

@groovergirl

"I could teach you so much about life ...'' "I worry about you, nearly 25 and not married. I'm worried you'll end up alone." "My wife is about to have a baby -- you can't expect me to ask her for sex!" "What you silly young girls don't realise is that you'd be so much better off with a mature man." "Men go crazy between the ages of 40 and 50. Society should just forgive us for everything." "Really -- you're going out tonight with a bunch of girls? Don't you have a man to take you out?"

Heard all these and more in my 20s. Yeuch!

The best dirty old man pickup line I heard in my 20s was "Mature men are better in bed." My response? "How do you know? How many have you slept with?"
TangMustang · 13/09/2021 07:11

@eekbumbler

same here, married man 38 years old for married when he was in his 20's,... 2 young kids.

47 and single... kids grown up - wow you're hot for your age... oh and the best one - many a good tune played on an old fiddle!!

Wow, I just squirted... and it was coffee out of my mouth mate. Do one.

'Yeah, mate. It's amazing how many instruments outlast the aging old rockers that insist on fiddling when they are long past their prime.'
ivykaty44 · 13/09/2021 07:26

my wife doesn't understand me

neither do I, so perhaps look further for someone with the instruction manual

Lovemusic33 · 13/09/2021 07:40

Yes, have heard it many times. I dated a guy last year and he vanished (stopped texting), a few weeks ago I get a text explaining that he’s actually in a relationship but it’s a sexless one and they just live together, he’s miserable because they sleep in separate beds and don’t ever talk to each other….he’s lonely….etc….etc….

I don’t get why guys do this other than to get away with having someone new to shag whilst going back home to their wife who cooks their dinner. If your marriage or relationship is so miserable why not leave?

Guys seem to think we are stupid and will feel sorry for them but it just makes them look weak and stupid.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 13/09/2021 07:47

Perhaps he was talking in Klingon?

AGAIN!

Angry
Moelwynbach · 13/09/2021 08:01

My favourite has been from a man saw for one week aged 17.
" You are the one that got away, I feel so weighed down by life"

For fucks sake Martin jog on.