cutting a baby's hair

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Yea, mine has a nursing degree as well, with a specialization in immunology... and she still thinks a draft will make you ill...

Alla is a certified medical interpreter with many hours now of nursing education, still taking two classes of medical courses every semester, and she thinks ice cubes cause sore throats.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

My opinion? Ignore it. It's all nonsense, but it's engrained into them, and they don't want to be wrong and will argue. It's not worth it.

I have long since given up. My wife has a nursing degree, and a high degree in Veterinary Medicine. But she is absolutely convinced (and simply won't be told otherwise) that a draft will make her ill. This is just my favorite in a long list of her old wives' tales...

Listen to those of us that know. Have you noticed a common thread in our advice?

Does she sleep naked year 'round? It goes a LONG way toward mitigating all these little idiosyncracies.

No such thing as cold water. Everything must be room temp to drink." You can get a cold". I drew the line at beer.

And if I step on her foot, then she needs to step on mine or we will have bad luck.

You see why we love RUB women!

[james&olya 1,121]

Our wives being RUB women are full of "wives tales" but we do not have stupid arguments with them because that would be...stupid. My wife will not hand me anything through a doorway without putting her foot through the doorway first, do not ever demonstrate anything by pointing to any part of her body, do not sit on cold objects (ruins a woman's reproductive organs), drafts make you sick, do not give knives for gifts, do not give timepieces (watches) for gifts, cold drinks make you sick, shall I go on?

No, I do not argue about this.

Just say "Yes dear" and cut the baby's hair.

Some things I have come to accept as the charm of being married to a beautiful woman from Ukraine and I find the trade off quite comfortably tolerable.

Just like her russian accent, I hope she stays like this. I don't look forward to her becoming 'americanized'!

[TBoneTX 44,672]

The reason to cut a baby's hair (a baby boy's, at least) is to keep him from looking like a girl, si man.

[eekee 182]

The thing about stepping on someone else's foot if they step on yours isn't about luck; it's so you won't get into an argument later.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The thing about stepping on someone else's foot if they step on yours isn't about luck; it's so you won't get into an argument later.

Right!

[leith@Ievgeniia 8]

the only thing that is good is my wife will not stop me from drinking cold. thank god. boiling hot tea when it is 100F outside well it is fun rub and cultures! i know all those and i think a few more. just cut the hair. but never the eye lashes if it is a girl! you will never here the end of that one!!!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

the only thing that is good is my wife will not stop me from drinking cold. thank god. boiling hot tea when it is 100F outside well it is fun rub and cultures! i know all those and i think a few more. just cut the hair. but never the eye lashes if it is a girl! you will never here the end of that one!!!

Eyelashes are important for some reason. Alla always checks mine and says I have "good eyelashes".

I am allowed to drink cold things because I have a "strong North American immune system from generations of people living in the forest" (My grandfather moved here from England in 1912, my father was born and raised in Lake Forest, IL...shhhhh. Maybe that counts as a "forest") I have been warned not to "poison" the boys with cold drinks, coca-cola and French fries & Gamboorgers. Too late. They both drink ICED Tea by the freaking gallons! Alla is sure they will die young now.

[Derek & Rita 6]

Eyelashes are important for some reason. Alla always checks mine and says I have "good eyelashes".

I am allowed to drink cold things because I have a "strong North American immune system from generations of people living in the forest" (My grandfather moved here from England in 1912, my father was born and raised in Lake Forest, IL...shhhhh. Maybe that counts as a "forest") I have been warned not to "poison" the boys with cold drinks, coca-cola and French fries & Gamboorgers. Too late. They both drink ICED Tea by the freaking gallons! Alla is sure they will die young now.

Yea, cold things are bad... except icecream...

[1HappyGuy 45]

Oh, but you can't eat ice cream right out of the freezer. It has to be allowed to soften and warm before you should eat it.

But we do love our RUB wives.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Oh, but you can't eat ice cream right out of the freezer. It has to be allowed to soften and warm before you should eat it.

But we do love our RUB wives.

Exactly! Warm ice cream.

[slim 1,514]

I don't get why I have to tell her whether or not she is allowed to cut our daughter's hair.

Because you're the husband and you have the final say in everything that happens. (Or so you're told.... right before she goes ahead and does what she wants!)

she argues with me. My view is - if you wanted my opinion, and you got it, why are you arguing with me?

That's not a cultural thing - it's because she's a woman.

when a woman asks for your opinion, what she is really asking is for you to tell her what she wants to hear. prime example... "does my bum look big in this"??

Somebody gets it.

OP: Three words of advice that have kept my marriage hitting on all cylinders: Choose your battles.

You are correct about hair not growing back in thicker. And you'll still be correct while sleeping on the couch.

Advice from a married dude.

Here's more - Buy a comfy couch!