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Sulkers

9 replies

Papillon · 20/11/2006 07:43

Anyone have one of those?

What do you do, ignore it or try and communicate with it?

OP posts:
ratclare · 20/11/2006 09:19

go out shopping ,its the only way . However i have to admit to being a big sulker myself ,the only problem is no one here ever notices !

Chandra · 20/11/2006 09:28

Same as Ratclare here, hence my heavy shopping

julezboo · 20/11/2006 09:37

I ignore it, happened last night and I just went to bed.

joelallie · 20/11/2006 12:36

Ignore or take the mickey. I can usually tell which approach will work best. Used to leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach but now I am used to it.

sleepfinder · 20/11/2006 16:06

I agree, ignore or make a joke of it.

ginnedupmummy · 20/11/2006 16:33

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suzywong · 21/11/2006 09:24

I have a sulker and a face-puller/eye-roller and a mutterer. I suppose after 15 years I should be used to it and not take the bait.

But to add a slightly different tangent to this thread, do you think when we were courting these men that there would have been any sign that this was in their nature, any warning beacon that if we took them on we would have to take this grindingly dull behaviour on as well? I am wracking my brains trying to see if there was a point at which a metaphorical siren should have gone off and the neon sign "this one is a sulker/mutterer/eye roller" should have come on, thus enabling us to make up our minds if we could hack this for the long haul.

Any thoughts?

MrsArchieTheInventor · 21/11/2006 09:38

Aren't all men sulkers/face-pullers/eye-rollers/mutterers?? And the metophorical siren should have sounded the minute the ring went on your finger, but unfortunately by then it's a tad too late to do owt about it. You can't add it into your vows as they've already been said - I promise to love thee and cherish thee for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death parts us but as long as you don't start rolling your eyes, sulking, pulling faces like a petulant child or growing your nose and ear hair so long you can plait it, amen.

Send him to sit on the naughty step until he straightens his face!

suzywong · 21/11/2006 09:42

Titter@MrsA

are they really all like that?

Mine is a Diamond Geezer 90% of the time but the aforementioned list of offences sometimes makes me wonder if it would be worth my while cutting his head off, metaphorically of course.

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