Z. Class that causes me marriage stress part II.

Good job for trying to make ur wife happy ....its funny i would never ask my husband to go to ZUmbA lol ....but hey maybe if you havent had a fight in a while, maybe she just wants a fight lol... hormones are wired sometimes......sometimes we just want to fight for no reason, and are looking for the most little things to start ...

oh man that was hilarious lol...your wife and you are a great couple...I pictured sitcom in my head when I read those stories lol...zumba...I think its great that you even tried it in the first place...your girl should've been all over you just for going..comical

You poor, poor man... :flowerforyou: :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ... I absolutely loved that story!!!

If you tell these stories often, please friend me.

/\/\ agreed! lol

This was a delightful read!!! Made me LOL! I imagined my husband taking Zumba with me. I am sure he would have reacted the same way as you!!

omg, thank you for the update, I snorted so loudly you would not believe. I'm not even sure my boss believed, lol. Zumba for me was exactly how you described it. I laughed my a** off the entire time, because I felt like I looked REALLY stupid and could not believe I was doing it... It was for a charity, but I'll never do it again. Also, 12-15 pairs tried ON?!? Yea, no. I have MAYBE 3 pairs of pants to workout in and I rotate them. I doubt I tried a PAIR on, let alone 12-15.

Good luck getting out of the dog house. In my opinion, you don't deserve to be there....

True Story:

I teach Zumba. DH was wondering if he should go to the gym. I told him, we can do my class here in the living room if you want. And he said, OK, I will try.

I put the music on, we do 2-8 counts and then we have to shake our *kitten*. Right then, my husband said, "Nope, not going to do it. I am heading to the gym, I just lost all of my manhood with that move right there!" haha! He has not attempted any of it since. I could not get him drunk enough to ever do my Zumba class!! He knows it is a kick butt class and admits it. But, he said that he does not dance like that.

Tell your wife to get over it. She is giving us a bad reputation!!! Come on women, LET OUR MEN BE MEN!! THEY LIKE TO PICK THINGS UP AND PUT THEM DOWN!!!!

Nooooooo. I can't believe you went and did it. I disagree that this is the end of it - she's going to ask you to try it again and take it seriously! You've messed up the principal of "I pick things up and put them down." It's essentially like you tried to compromise without following through. I think she'll resent you more for that than if you had told her no way. It's sort of like you either compromise and actually do it, or you tell her you just can't but will compromise on something else.

I disagree with the - you should try it advice. I said for you to tell her that you need your time to lift weights, uninterrupted, and tell her that he cute butt (in the now neon yellow pants) would be distracting and you'd drop a weight and that would suck. Let her be bad, then cool off and invite her to the gym on a day you aren't planning on lifting, and cardio on next to her. There was never any try the zumba in there!

I don't think there's anything wrong with your wife/marriage. She just wants to hang out with you. You just gotta let her know that the weights is your thing and it's unreasonable to make you go dance and not be allowed to laugh about it, and that you promise to find a different thing at the gym you can share on non-lifting days.

Keep updating though - these are fun to read.

My marrage has its bumps, as for talking to her, trust me Ive tried that route! I do things outside of the gym with her daily. Its just something about her wanting to go to the gym to me. It was never an issue this oast year til this last week. Doesnt make any sense :-) for those flaming bring it on, no pme pnline can compare to the wrath Ive gotten in real life. Lighten up a bit, life is too short how it is. I was just sharing a bit of drama that has been happening ;-) if you cant laugh at your situation you havent caused enough chaos! Honestly the gym has been the only thing weve fought about in awhile, im a pacifist! This will surely past, she'll come around and tell me whats up when she is ready. Ive reached out at this point just got to make the best of it!

my dear friend saw the new post this AM and couldn't wait to read as i told you it helped me with the what not to do when you go to the gym with your husband. if you remember i told you we went together and i kept my mouth shut and when we got home his complaint was he felt like he was there alone. so on with my extra stuff , last night he feel asleep but he told me if he did wake him up so we could go to the gym i called out to him twice he got up we went. we went and did weights and then i wanted to try the arc trainer so he came along and peddled on the spinning bike close by . this was my first time on this piece of equipment and i asked the guy next to me for help he was very talkative . i half way thought i'm gonna get in the car and hear some mess about flirting but i didn't. the only thing he was saying is how it's hard to work out with me because i'm not pushing him. i told him this is not the movie the program. he also said he was tired i told him i started not to wake him but i didn't want him upset that i went to the gym alone late at night. I guess what i'm trying to say i don't really agree that your marriage is in trouble because you were looking at women people are fools if they think people who have been married for 50 yrs never looked at anyone but the one they are with. as long as you aren't staring or getting numbers. my husband are trying to find our medium at the gym . he's not ever going to a dance class and that's a fact . i think it's important for people to except people's comfort zone. you went you tried there are so many men including my own that would be like yeah but no. somethings some people should not do together and this may be one of them and maybe you guys need to have that talk. i told my husband maybe he should see if any of the guys at work have a membership to the same gym so they can growl at each other like macho man randy savage and high five and whatever other lame things guys do to pump each other up. we have to learn to relax and laugh at ourselves sometimes the gym really should be a stress reliever not a cause

Oh my gosh! You tell an awesome story!!!!!!! My husband WOULD NOT EVER EVER go into a ZUMBA class. He would double over in front of everyone laughing and then I would have to kick him in the *kitten*. Also I don't take him shopping for workout clothes because I am very over-weight and as of right now he says things to me like WOW Thank God for elastic and Hey that elastic is beggin for mercy. I do not ask him how I look because he won't lie. Ever. I also know if I'm heading to the car and he looks at me and says "Really" as he looks me up and down, that I just keep going to the car and say "YEAH REALLY Jack *kitten*"
We've been married 19 years and it works for us.

Your story is very amusing and I would respect somebody for trying to keep their partner happy. But I would respect them more if they could stand up for themselves regardless of the tears, tantrums and manipulation.

freaking hilarious!

so my first question would be how long have you been married? and if it is longer then 10 years, has your wife been paying attention to your personality? :laugh: :laugh:

But I give you husband points for trying the class.