Part 2

25. Check your oil.
26. Don't give us 50 rules when 25 will do.
27. Don't fake it. We'd rather be ineffective than deceived.
28. It is neither in your best interest nor ours to take the quiz together.
29. Anything we said 6 or 8 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. All comments become null and void after 7 days.
30. If you don't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.
31. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad and angry, we meant the other one.
32. Let us ogle. If we don't look at other women, how can we know how pretty you are?
33. Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out.
34. You can either ask us to do something OR tell us how you want it done - not both.
35. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
36. Christopher Columbus didn't need directions, and neither do we.
37. Women wearing Wonderbras and low-cut blouses lose their right to complain about having their boobs stared at.
38. Consider Golf a mini-vacation from you. We need it, just like you do.
39. Telling us that the models in the men's magazines are airbrushed makes you look jealous and petty and it's certainly not going to deter us from reading the magazines.
40. The relationship is never going to be like it was the first two months we were going out.
41. Anyone can buy condoms.

Hope you all get a laugh or two. (The views expressed by the rules are not necessarily those of the management - moi)

Dianne

Interesting comparison of 'the rules'. One set is overwhelmingly about behaviour, the other is about attitude.

The men's set of rules for women are well codified and explicit, and in many cases don't even contain a rule, just a statement of fact.

The rules exist like the rules of a sport, so that participants can enjoy playing the game to the limits of the rules. They are also more like common law, which restricts certain behaviour whilst letting all other non-prohibited activities are allowed. In this situation there are no 'bosses', just rulemakers and the game is played accordingly.

However the 'other' set of rules is less tangible. They seek to leave the rules open to change by the players whilst in the middle of the game. Can anyone imagine any other field of human activity where once an activity has commenced one side, and only one side, can arbitrarily change the rules, laws or regulations without the other side's consent?

Just in female / male relationships, and it is only the woman who is allowed to change the rules.

Here is the condensed set of true rules...

1. Rules are made to be broken
2. A ruler without enforcement ability is an emperor without clothes
3. You can only make rules IF you can get someone to PLAY
4. Those subjugated by the rules can always vote with their feet
5. Rulers who become totalitarian end up yelling into the void

Learn to love and respect each other and forget about power trips.

One rule of engagement and also a fact left off the list that my nanna taught me from a young age is;

We (females) never NAG - If you did it the first time we would not have to ask again!

Male and females (Husbands & Wives)are like big handbags the difference is that the male handbag is made up of compartments - one compartment for work, one for each kid one for the wife one for the mates one for the parents in law, one for breakfast, one for lunch, one for tea, and one for sex where as the female handbag consists of one big compartment - let me explain.
If we have a fight at breakfast - the husband amazingly closes that compartment and opens the next being work after work he simply closes that compartment and opens the next - that night he may decide to open the sex compartment and be calling us in a sweet voice from the bedroom - because we(ladies) have everything stored in one big compartment we have to sometimes dig to the bottom to find what u want and will find things on the way,keep in mind we may not have cleaned out our bags for a while and find things left there from last week. So the way you treat us at breakfast wheather it be today or yesterday has a great deal to do with how we respond to you that night or when u get home. You cant tell us that we look fat in the morning in that dress even if we asked or complain about anything that we are doing wrong (be it household, money, shopping/spending or on how to raise your chidren) and then expect us to answer to your sweet calls from the bedroom because WE DO NOT FORGET.

Part 2 - Compartments Cont...

Even if it seems like we are ordering you around or talking to you like we talk to the kids or the dog when u get home it is simple - if we have been stuck in a house with kids all day and have had no adult interaction we can and do forget how to talk to you at an adult level - so please be patient and wait untill the kids go to bed before engaging in any type of decent conversation with us because if the kids have driven us bonkers then we will fire at you without realising and if you try and make us realize this we will start throwing grenades and then my friend it is all about those compartments.

LOL

"You cant tell us that we look fat in the morning in that dress even if we asked or complain about anything that we are doing wrong (be it household, money, shopping/spending or on how to raise your chidren) and then expect us to answer to your sweet calls from the bedroom because WE DO NOT FORGET."

ROFL - so what you are basically saying is that men should give you schmalz to make you feel better about yourself, rather then be rational and honest.

Men know that thats the oldest trick in the book to get women into bed, so thats exactly what many do. What then of course happens is when reality hits with a thud and the truth comes out, there are lots of tears and broken hearts and men are called various names :(

So do you want schmalz to make you feel better about yourself, or would it not pay you to start learning how to rationally put things in compartments ? :)