As the first year of bliss wears off you start to realize that you now have a full grown man child in your life. Undoubtably you either have cried or will cry from frustration when you just can not get him to behave. It is one of those things that everyone struggles with and everyone learns to accept. Yes Accept. It. Will. Never. Change.
From telling him how to drive. To behave in a public place. To stop saying this. Quit doing that. Please don't. Knock it off. Be Careful. Wear your seatbelt. Turn that down. Be gentle with that. Dont put that there. Where did you put this? Close that. Ect...
It never stops. You will get more and more annoyed at each little thing. And why does it bother you so?
Because they don't listen. They don't stop. It goes in one ear, out the other, and five minutes later they are doing exactly what you told them not to.
You give them specific instructions, ask them to repeat them to you, and when they come back they still did it wrong.
What do you do?
The honest answer is 'Let it go'. You are your own person, with your own habits and rules for everything. But at the end of the day they are their own person too. They will do it their own way. Even if that way is harder, more dangerous, and socially frowned upon. All you can do is shake your head.
You could try to nag them over and over again. But that only causes friction between you, and not the good kind. The good news is every now and then they learn from experience and become wiser.
But the moral of the story is, you can't be a wife and a Parent. You can't micromanage a man. And the best motto in life came from a Disney Princess who ironically doesn't have a man to deal with.
