Wife jealous; advice?
08-08-2012, 08:35 AM
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Not much help here because my wife also drives a stick as good or better than I do. She doesn't drive it very often, to work occasionally, because unlike me she 'can't drive 55 (or 70)'. She was driving the other day in a 55 MPH zone in 4th gear and I asked why she didn't go to 5th. She said 'If I go to 5th I'll go faster but your're in the car so I can't'.
08-08-2012, 09:21 AM
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I've always had Street Rods, Race cars or Corvettes and my wife couldn't care less. I guess I am lucky. Or course I had them when we met 35 years ago too. That could have something to do with it.
08-08-2012, 11:35 AM
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i bought my z when i was 25, at the time my gf was living with me in my house i had just bought. we had been together off and on for years, she sopported me at first because for years i had said i will buy a zo6 one day. then shortly after it was a pretty big fight. she would throw the car in my face. her friends used to tell her "how does that corvette look on your ring finger". i used to not tell her the cost of mods to avoid an argument.. fast forward to today.. i still have the vette... i dont have her... 
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I'm in a similar situation - living with my GF (at 24) I have my Z06. She doesn't care about it though, she likes going for rides...I'm still trying to get her to learn to drive it though! Although, as other have pointed out I had a highly modified trans am when we met and she knew about how crazy me and a lot of my friends were about cars so this is nothing out of the ordinary.
If her friends told her **** like that I'd have some words for them.
08-08-2012, 02:11 PM
#47
It takes a special woman to accept that you're a car guy. I try to be up front with all the women I date, but sooner or later, they all say I care more about the car than them. Oh well, I've been through a lot of ladies in the last 3 years, but only one Corvette.
08-08-2012, 03:51 PM
#51
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My conversation typically goes something like this;
Wife: Why do you need to buy new wheels? The ones you have look fine.
Me: I "need to" change them, they are "getting old". You know what I mean, remember when you wanted to change the living room furniture and I thought the old furniture looked fine. It's the same thing, "a change of pace".
Wife: Oh, ok I guess I see what you mean.
Me: Running like hell to buy the upgrade
Now that I think about it, she played me more than I played her. Over the years she's upgraded, wedding ring, living room, dining room, bedroom furniture, shoes, clothes when I've said she didn't "need it". Gotta love our wive's.
*Words in quotation marks are the words she uses when she wants to upgrade. I've learned to use them.
Wife: Why do you need to buy new wheels? The ones you have look fine.
Me: I "need to" change them, they are "getting old". You know what I mean, remember when you wanted to change the living room furniture and I thought the old furniture looked fine. It's the same thing, "a change of pace".
Wife: Oh, ok I guess I see what you mean.
Me: Running like hell to buy the upgrade
Now that I think about it, she played me more than I played her. Over the years she's upgraded, wedding ring, living room, dining room, bedroom furniture, shoes, clothes when I've said she didn't "need it". Gotta love our wive's.
*Words in quotation marks are the words she uses when she wants to upgrade. I've learned to use them.
08-08-2012, 04:01 PM
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08-08-2012, 05:06 PM
#54
As someone else remarked elsewhere in passing, I think my wife is jealous of my Corvette. She has even called it my "other woman". I bought it a couple years ago at her urging--she knew it was a dream of mine--but now she regrets that and doesn't understand my interest in mods. I've likened it to her hobbies and interests, but she still doesn't get it. Many of you have had your Vettes for much longer than I. Have you encountered such reactions from your spouse? Do you have any advice?
08-08-2012, 05:12 PM
#55
I couldn't agree more.
08-08-2012, 05:21 PM
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08-08-2012, 05:34 PM
#57
Counseling? Perhaps there's been a miscommunication on my part. When I said jealousy, I didn't mean to suggest that she feels threatened as if by another woman. It's merely the superficial feeling many women express when they think their men are paying too much attention to something they don't understand. This is far anything warranting counseling (says the counselor).
08-08-2012, 06:05 PM
#58
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^^^
My Ex woulld have said that just by virtue of the fact I said I don't need counseling was incontrovertible proof that I did need it!!!! 
DSTURBD
My Ex woulld have said that just by virtue of the fact I said I don't need counseling was incontrovertible proof that I did need it!!!! DSTURBD
08-08-2012, 06:48 PM
#59
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Sorry about the "jealous" Wife, mine was that way when I had my race car. I even heard her say "its just all about you and your little race car" so I told her that I would sell car and buy a vett so we could drive around " together " So thats what I did. Now days when the UPS guy shows up with a few car goodies I only get a little stink eye I tell her the parts are only to enhance our driving experience and that this stuff is a lot cheaper than parts for the race car so we are really saving money T he other day I had the car in the shop for some service, the service guy called, my daughter answered the phone she came outside where my wife & I were to give me the message, she said "my girlfried" was ready to be picked up
My wife didnt even flinch... she said lets go get her. I wasnt sure how to take that response I'm one lucky guy...at least for today....
Good luck
T he other day I had the car in the shop for some service, the service guy called, my daughter answered the phone she came outside where my wife & I were to give me the message, she said "my girlfried" was ready to be picked up My wife didnt even flinch... she said lets go get her. I wasnt sure how to take that response I'm one lucky guy...at least for today....
Good luck
