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Old May 02, 2012, 10:14 AM
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Just wanting others thoughts on the line between me being overly intrusive into my wife’s life, and her showing me what I feel is a bit of common courtesy.

Things have gotten a lot better with my wife letting me know when she is going to be gone, you know just a quick text letting me know she is going golfing and our daughter is at a friend’s house, instead of what used to happen where I would come home to an empty house with no clue where wife/daughter were, only to have my wife become upset with me for calling/texting her asking where she is.

But she still is very bad about returning home when she has told us she would (us being both our daughter and I). She will say something like “I’m going grocery shopping will be back in a couple of hours” then won’t be home for 8-10 hours later, when I ask her about it she will say she decided to run some other errands. I have NO PROBLEM if she would say I’m going to run some errands and I’m not sure when I will be back. That would allow me to make plans with our daughter instead of the two of us just sitting around the house waiting for her to get home. This weekend really upset me, my wife went Golfing, said she would be back “a bit after noon” didn’t get home until after 5:00 PM my daughter was a bit bummed because my wife had told her she would take her and a friend to the mall when she got home, but by the time she did get home it was too late. If I we had known that my wife wouldn’t be gone so long we would have done something (maybe not the mall but something) instead of just sitting around. How hard is it to send a text to one of us saying “won’t be home until (insert time here)”

So anyone think I’m being out of line being a bit miffed about this?
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