Wife takes 45 minutes to say goodbye at holiday parties

exact same experience. but for all events (church, dinner parties, school events etc).

i started bringing a second car to events so I could leave earlier and not nag her about leaving. works out ok this way

No way that doesn’t piss her off.

shes prefers it, doesnt feel pressured to leave can take 55 minutes to say goodbye at her own leisure, i stay until event ends or we say goodbye, and leave promptly.

Thanks for waiting outside, plenty of time for me to give her a proper goodbye

You married her… because you loved her.

She may prefer you depart early for other reasons, then.

Just find an unused bedroom and sneak in a quickie with a friend she’s already said goodbye to early on in the cycle. That’s what I do. I even subtly encourage her to say goodbye to the ones I like early.

It is what it is. When we go out I just accept much of the time will be spent waiting for her to get ready and to leave. Pressing them just leads to hostility.

Encourage her to adopt the "Irish Exit". I am female and it works for me.

Sit in the car and blast the horn. I guarantee the embarrassment will get her moving fast. You will have to deal with some lectures about rudeness later, but it's worth it to light a fire under her azz.

I will tell you what I find just as annoying. I will be driving with a girlfriend to visit another couple and on the way she is talking a little trash about them. As soon as we are greeted at the front door she starts spewing compliments at them. Oh you look so great…just a bunch of compliments and they return the compliments and I am thinking like what the hell?

If you repeatedly and frequently bring this up to her, you will next be posting on the long-running and famous "post-nupual shut-off thread..."

Who wants to bang their wife? Gross.

Guess the incel.

Fake word made up by stupid young people with no social skills

Does she happen to have a 2nd cousin?

Man, meet woman.

Woman, man.

Lady, do you understand that language is organic and that there is a reason the Oxford English Dictionary went from version 1 to 2 and is now in the process of developing version 3. For instance, the word scofflaw was created by the Baltimore Sun in the late 1800s (off the top of my head) and was in the second version of the OED, but not the first. Let me guess, you are a school teacher and you tell people not to end sentences with a preposition.

While we are on the subject why does it take 2+ hours to get ready to go anywhere. And we are always way late.

WTF?

if it takes 2+ hours to get ready, how about getting ready 3-4 hours before we leave instead of 45 minutes?

it’s simple freaking math.

If I even hint at irritation, annoyance over this it becomes a huge crisis and further ruins whatever event we are attending.

Am I the only one?