Hi! Hoping for some good advice here as I'm crap at relationships, have been single for the last 7 years due to believing that I just can't "do" successful relationships. Just recently I've been thinking about getting out there again but would like to do thinks differently and be.... well, better I suppose. Anyway this person (female if it matters) is the one that family and friends consider my "best" and the one that got away. I ended it largely because of this, I'll give examples but it was constant.
Always in the company of friends or family she was bubbly, funny, charming and everybody loved her.
- She said "oh I do all the cooking my our house, poor old June doesn't have a domestic bone in her body"
Reality: I enjoy cooking, she wouldn't let me cook, turned her nose up at everything I made and insisted on making her own anyway, then always left the kitchen an absolute state for me to clear up.
- She said "Well I've been on the go but poor old June seems to need constant naps to get her through the day."
Reality I had a young baby, got up through the night, up for the day at 5.30am and had one quick nap mid morning whilst the baby slept. She slept through every night and laid in bed until 10am.
- She said "June knows she's tone deaf but the choir keeps her out of trouble so what harm can it do?
Reality, I run the choir, it's large and quite successful, she never took any interest so wouldn't know that. My voice is ok, not a superstar but not tone deaf either.
Any attempt to defend myself quickly resulted in me looking moody, argumentative or spoiling the atmosphere.
So, sorry for the long thread.... is there a good, witty, lighthearted way to respond to this sort of thing without looking like the moody prat who ruined the evening?