My wife is a very practical person, which is one of the reasons I love her. But she absolutely hates books in every way. She hates reading. She hates reading to our son. She hates that I love to read. She rolls her eyes when she sees other people reading. She constantly gives me sh*t for reading; hides my books, nagging me,”what do you get out of it? It’s so lame? You look like a nerd?”
She thinks reading is a total and complete waste of time. She is a person of action and when she sees someone reading she just thinks they should be working.
She’s an intelligent well rounded woman, college educated, witty, great career, she’s just absolutely hates books.
Any ideas on how to change her opinion on reading?
I’ve tried buying her books on topics that she’s interested in. I’ve tried buying us the same book so we could talk about it together. Nothing works.
She just hates books. When she sees a book store she literally says,”yuck” and walks the other way.
I’ve really tried to pin it down on why she hates books. The closes we’ve got is that she works a stressful high pressure job and the last thing she wants to do when she’s off work is read and think.
But I think that’s BS, she’s always been like this, even in her youth.
Any ideas?
[–]OzSleeperCell6 points7 points8 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Can't let the slaves get educated now...that leads to a revolution.
[–]crispinosk82 points3 points4 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Is the most stupid thing i've readen today
[–]DWShimoda2 points3 points4 points (0 children) | Copy Link
This part:
Is just TOO damned funny in it's complete absurdity.
(Although these days, the combination of "college educated" [sic] but hates reading -- assuming that is she even CAN read at all {growing numbers of college students & even college graduates are functionally if not entirely "illiterate"} -- is probably increasingly common... Yaaay Feminism & Egalitarianism!)
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
She doesn't want to read books? Ok. Mocking other people who like to read? BIG RED FLAG. This guy married a woman from Idiocracy.
[–]unrepentantmgtow0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
It's about control and it's about her not getting attention.
[–]Lawuhiku0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Well tbh, can't blame him, if he ever read a book that made him think, he'd know how to use his brain, sadly, his wife forbid him.
[–]SheriffMcAllister0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Her extreme reactions show that she is probably somewhat insane. Not liking something is one thing, having such extreme reactions to it another. She is probably just a dumb bitch and if someone would get angry for such stupid reasons, I would never speak to them again.
Also, her college education is probably made up and she just seems intelligent for the dumbass who stays with her.