Thanks for the Feedback

Thanks all of you who sent feedback via the comments section or through email on my last post.  I think a lot of people out there feel the same way I do at times.  And that was one of my goals in starting the blog was to not feel so lonely myself and to help others not feel alone as they struggle with the difficulties of being a working mom, stay-at-home mom (which is a working mom as well) or just a regular person in a relationship.

I also want you all to know that I do love my husband.  He is a wonderful father and is really very sweet to me.  We have been through a lot together and he is not perfect, but neither am I.  We're just doing the best we can to make life for our daughter work.  That I know we agree on 100%.  I never want to in any way make him out to be a monster, because he is not.  He just gets on my nerves sometimes as I know I get on his.

My Mom gave me her feedback on my  last post verbally.  She said, "Val, men are from Mars, women are from Venus.  That's it."  I have never read the book, but I get the basic concept that men and women think and function differently and that's why we get so frustrated with each other sometimes.  Remember, that is also what attracts us too...
Then she informed me that John Gray, the man that wrote said book, has written a few others and his most recent one talks about how the different hormone levels that women and men have at different times of the day, in their life, etc affect how we interact with each other.  Check out this link if interested: Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice: Hormonal Balance - The Key to Life, Love, and Energy

Anyway, I'll mention this just because it's kind of funny...My Mom describes a part of this new book she must have read or, more likely, heard someone talk about. She says that in the book the author explains that when a man's hormone levels get low he needs to just sit there until the levels rise back up to a certain point and then he is able to get up and do something again, thus the staring at the pre-recorded golf behavior.
While she was telling me this I was thinking, "Ah, my mother is crazy and mis-quoting something or interpreting it so it makes no sense whatsoever, blah, blah,"  BUT, it actually kind-of made sense??
I'm thinking of getting the book and seeing what it has to say.  If any of you get to it before me, let me know what you think.

It strangely made me feel better that there was some sort of explanation for this weird sitting and staring behavior that I have never understood in our almost 8 years of marriage.  Even if it is unfounded, it makes me feel joyful, well maybe not joyful, but comforted now when I see my husband sitting there watching River Monsters, when he could be doing a million other more useful things, that he can't help it.  Maybe?  At least it helps me bite my tongue and move on.