What has really been bothering me lately is this prejudice that certain people (usually boys) have about girlfriends and esp. wives (oh how i hate that word, it just sounds old and matronly...just like "husband" sounds quite daunting and overbearing), that they ruin guys' fun, prevent them from hanging out with their friends, and are generally ball and chains.
I'd just like to know when this idea came about. 'Cause in my experience, more often than not, it's the guys being ball & chains. I mean, what's the case against women: we ruin poker night?? And usually, it's the guy who's too lazy to go out and see their friends and because he's married, the friends assume it's the girl screwing them over.
And (much more convincingly) the case against men: I've seen countless examples of women giving up their careers, and bodies (pregnancy screws you over!) for their husbands. And you don't see women's friends making "dead woman walking" jokes when someone gets engaged.

I've never seen a guy who's trying to get a higher education degree give it up because "Suzy wants to have kids."

And I'm not saying it's wrong for people to do that, I'm just saying Ease Up on the chauvinistic bull. I don't like being seen as a ball and chain. I'm the same person I was before I got married, and that's not going to change.

Barf.