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Husband Shaming for the Holidays
When I first heard of Dog Shaming (well, I didn’t hear of it first – first I heard of Mom Shaming and then the Dog Shaming, but the Dog Shaming came first) and the Mom Shaming that grew out of it on Divine Secrets of a Domestic Diva, I thought the whole idea was genius. The signs the pets or people held up admitting their hideous acts of wrongdoing were so honest, so flawed and so funny.
But my favorite, my all time favorite shaming, is husband shaming. I believe that’s where the true shaming lies. Dogs know not what they do, moms make mistakes in the fast, unchartered frenzy of parenting, but husbands…husbands choose their actions with deliberation, and they almost always make the wrong choice.
So wrong, in fact, that when Mommy Shorts originally put out a call for photos from readers for a husband shaming post she was planning to put together following her own photo shaming of her husband, she got no response. None. That’s when Kerry at House TalkN (among a few brave others), who recognized a good cause when she saw one, took up the slack for the rest of the blogosphere and convinced all the men in her neighborhood to admit to their wrongdoing, take a picture of it and post it online for the whole world to judge. And it was good. So very, very good.
But I’m always late to the party, and I found out about all this after the fact. And I was devastated. I thought, surely, I’ve done something wretched I could have contributed, and if not I know my husband has. I just couldn’t let this opportunity pass without pointing out all of the horrible things my husband has done. They are just too good to let go unpublicized.
So I set out to publicly humiliate him. I wrote to Mommy Shorts inquiring as to whether she planned another husband shaming post for the holidays. It was the perfect time of year to do it, a reflective time, a time to ponder life’s circuitous path and reminisce about all the ways our husbands have wronged us.
As I sat there composing my note with a specific instance in mind to submit, all the transgressions my husband’s committed over the course of our relationship came flooding back. Another and another and another. They just kept coming. And I thought, hell, I don’t even need to take part in a montage of other people’s horrible husbands. I could write a whole husband shaming post all on my own.
And so I have.
I also believe in Bigfoot.
And they were a replacement gift from the year before when the gloves I got her didn’t fit.
I want to thank my husband for being such a good sport for this post. But he owed me.
What have you all got to get off your chests about your husbands (and maybe force a really nice gift out of him by publicly shaming him)?
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There are so many things… so many… but we are already having one of the worst Christmases ever so I’ll let them slide!
Next year, maybe?
LOL!! Terrible sins, but I hope the Paris trip has softened the blow a bit now?!!
Oh, absolutely. You take me to Paris all is forgiven.
I’d say the trip to Paris makes him gold, now, right? Did you happen to do any shopping there, like at the Chanel store?
No. We had no time for that. We were on a mission to see everything. And eat.
Great, now I can tell my hubs, see look what a good husband OneFunnyMotha has. Don’t you want to be just like him? Guilt is good.
Yes, but I had to sit through a LOT of Finding Bigfoot.
In order for me to get my most beloved to do this, would require a fifth of Jack, a promise for naked twister at a time deemed necessary by him, and cooking him prime rib every night for a week. His favorite saying is, “I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was just mistaken.”
Great post and so fun that your husband played along!
I loved this and my husband I could write a book not just a blog post. Seriously, love the man, but he is so the definition of husband shaming, lol!!
Love it!!! Oh man, I’ve got tons of shit on mine…and he didn’t take me to Paris!
Well, he should. Perhaps a shaming is in order.
THAT was awesome. Thanks for the laugh.
I’ve gotta work on mine!!!
Thanks. All true. And, yes, start shaming your husband NOW – still a few more days left b/4 Christmas!
Loved how the last one was just a soothing panacea for all of the others. That definitely carries him far! Thanks for linking this up with #findingthefunny
Thank you for hosting. And thanks for reading. I love Finding the Funny.
Oh how hilarious! LOL
And noooooooooo, on the first class seat part. That is classic and oh so funny. Thanks for sharing this laugh on TALU.
Thank you for reading. And, side note, my husband has sat in 1st class before whereas I never have had the pleasure.
I’m always late to these “parties” too. (Clearly since I found this on TALU) But good on you, brave woman!
Thanks. I just found out about TALU, but I’m gonna make my way around all the posts shortly.
OMG I love this! I actually haven’t heard of husband shaming, so apparently, I’m REALLY late to the game. I can’t wait to my my husband do this! Awesome idea!
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I never thought I’d get my husband to agree, but when he did I ran with it.
I don’t have a husband to shame, but I’d be happy to do a second post shaming yours for the gloves for Christmas! I would have had to smack him across the face with them like the old days and challenge him to a duel.
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Yes, you’re right. A duel. Although I do have to say that year I told him we weren’t gonna go crazy for Christmas. Unfortunately, he took it quite literally.
HAHAHAHA well, played, wifey. I got a pretty necklace for our anniversary, but I’m still waiting on Paris….or at least back to Vegas where we got married!