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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:11 pm
Posted by LSUBFA83
Member since May 2012
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:11 pm
I grudgingly went to the Mall of Louisiana today, looking for a Mother's Day gift. (It's hard to find something for an 88-year-old with dementia.) I saw no less than 3 couples shopping together for clothes for the wife. Is this a thing now? I assumed all men would rather have a root canal with no anesthesia than shop with the wife. What gives??
Posted by Horsemeat
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:12 pm to
Did you ask any of them?
Posted by WildcatMike
Lexington, KY
Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:12 pm to
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grudgingly went to the Mall of Louisiana


Is that safe?
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
10014 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:13 pm to
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I assumed all men would rather have a root canal with no anesthesia than shop with the wife. What gives??


I like my wife.

Doesn't really matter too much what we're doing. Pretty happy with all the time we get to spend together.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
35828 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:14 pm to
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shop with the wife


Going to Bath and Body Works and Hobby Lobby at least once a month then usually we will get some mexican food afterwards, makes for a really nice day.
Posted by Underteaux
Member since Feb 2024
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:14 pm to
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It's hard to find something for an 88-year-old with dementia.
Not to be a dick, but I feel like the dementia would make it very easy
Posted by tke_swamprat
Houma, LA
Member since Aug 2004
11076 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:15 pm to
At least the Mall of Louisiana has a Dick's for guys to go get lost in. They need a good knife store.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
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Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:16 pm to
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I assumed all men would rather have a root canal with no anesthesia than shop with the wife. What gives??


Why in gods name would someone even be married if they despise spending time with their wife that much?.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134447 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:16 pm to
What's the upside of clothes shopping with women?

There is no right answer for "does this make me look fat?"

Give them the card and run an errand
Posted by Obtuse1
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Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:19 pm to
We like hanging out together. I shop with her, whether it is clothes or anything else. She hangs out with me at Home Depot/Lowe's, woodworking stores, etc. Plus, when she is trying on clothes, and I am sitting in the companion chair, I have my phone. We usually both shop for things and get food during/after. We don't do it as often in the internet age, and I must admit I do miss it a little.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
15546 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:19 pm to
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no less than 3 couples shopping together for clothes for the wife.

Insanity. I don't care if I need something from the mall and we're going to lunch after, I will not be standing around for her clothes shopping.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
105078 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:26 pm to
I sure wish I could do that now.
Posted by nuwaydawg
Member since Nov 2007
2226 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:28 pm to
Dante's third level of hell.

I'm trapped in a Hallmark card store while my wife is picking out a card.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
55630 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:28 pm to
stop creeping on couples out shopping
Posted by wheelr
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Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:28 pm to
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Is this a thing now? I assumed all men would rather have a root canal with no anesthesia than shop with the wife. What gives??


You should have posted how you enjoy clothes shopping with your wife. Then the OT would have pushed back and called it cuck behavior.
Posted by BregmansWheelbarrow
Member since Mar 2020
3244 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:30 pm to
I'm extremely food motivated so if she starts off a conversation with, "I'm thinking we could go to the mexican joint and then I need a nice shirt and need to run to ulta..."

All I hear is "Mexican joint" and will agree. She knows this...that's why she starts with food and lists everything else after I've zoned out.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
36952 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:31 pm to
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It's hard to find something for an 88-year-old with dementia.

Just find something in her house and wrap it and give it to her.
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
82996 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:32 pm to
My parents go shopping together all the time.

When I was growing up and they took us for seasonal wardrobe refreshes, Dad always came and actively participated. I don't bring my husband when I want to go on my own and have little direction, but we certainly don't mind shopping together either.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
41992 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:33 pm to
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There is no right answer for "does this make me look fat?"


"No. You're not even remotely fat and you know that." Pretty easy.
Posted by Mariner
Mandeville, LA
Member since Jul 2009
2614 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:33 pm to
I shop with her not because I want to shop or watch her shop, but because it is important to her that we are spending time together.

We often make an afternoon or day out of it. She shops, then we may go get lunch or dinner afterwards, put the kids on the train, etc.

I know a lot of guys with family who I used to work with offshore. During their time off they would be hunting/fishing, working on the camp, helping a buddy they work with build his camp, build a shed, etc. Those same guys would hang out at the smoking area flipping out about their ex, their soon to be ex, or their resentful wife. I am certain they would never go shopping with their wife. You spend half a year away from home, and then when you are home you are with a work buddy that you already live with half of the year piddlydinking on a special project.

Those men you saw shopping are guaranteed to have better things to do, but they are supportive of their spouses needs. Kudos to them.
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