10-20-2020, 04:46 PM | #45 |
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If you actually want a serious answer to this dilemma and you have the time, I highly recommend you get hold of a book called "Why men don't listen and women can't read maps" written by a couple of my fellow Aussies, Allan and Barbara Pease.
I found a link to the entire book in .PDF format at this site: http://khalidrafiq.weebly.com/upload..._read_maps.pdf Just a small sample from the book: How to Argue While Driving A husband who teaches his wife to drive is heading for the divorce courts. Men all around the world give the same instructions to women: 'Turn left - slow down! - change gears - watch out for those pedestrians - concentrate - stop crying!' For a man, driving is a test of his spatial ability relative to the environment. For a woman, the purpose of driving is to get safely from point A to point B. A man's best strategy as a passenger is to close his eyes, turn up the radio and stop commentating because, overall, women are safer drivers than men. She'll get him there - it may just take a little longer, that's all. But at least he can relax and arrive alive. A woman will criticise a man's driving because his spatial ability allows him to make decisions and judgements that look dangerous to her. Provided he doesn't have a poor driving record, she also needs to relax and not criticise, and just let him do the driving. When the first drop of rain hits the windscreen, a woman immediately turns on the wipers, something men can never understand. A man's brain waits until the exact amount of raindrops are on the screen relative to the speed of the wipers and he turns the wipers on when the precise amount of time has passed. In other words, he uses spatial ability. |
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Read 25 pages and its good.. a bit clichéd when it tries to grab your attention but will read it through. Liked it when the author says that along the line over past 20 years 'equal' and 'identical' have been obfuscated. Of course men and women are equal but they are not identical. |
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10-20-2020, 05:24 PM | #48 |
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Take her to a One-day M School at one of the BMW Performance Centers under the guise of improving both of your driving skills in emergency situations. Then outperform her in the different events (rat race on wet oval, drifting on skid pad, timed autocross, high speed track). Hopefully, the head-to-head competition will take away her preconceived notion that she is the better driver.
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10-20-2020, 06:56 PM | #50 |
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I dated a girl that seemed to constantly complain and compare. Nothing I did was good enough. Needless to say that didn’t work out. I mean, if I’m not good enough then let’s both move on to other people. I don’t want or need to prove myself every day for the rest of our lives. We all do things differently. So if she has issues with how you do things then let her do those things, and vice versa. But I have to tell you: there is a difference between giving constructive criticism for you to improve vs constant nagging. The latter will make you a sad man forever.
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10-20-2020, 08:03 PM | #51 |
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She needs the D...i'm serious!
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10-20-2020, 08:26 PM | #52 |
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Hell I have been married for 12 years and my wife still complains about my driving. Keep in mind I am a ups driver and drive for a live. I had one accident since I started driving over 15yrs ago and it was someone that hit me lol.. I just ignore it.
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10-20-2020, 08:47 PM | #53 |
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There will be much bigger issues to manage in a relationship than driving. If you two are unable to develop the tools and skills to deal with driving, what are you going to do with financial decisions, socks left on the floor, and your poop stinking.
As stated, communicate to each other. If can't resolve, then move on. |
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10-21-2020, 07:49 AM | #54 | |
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10-21-2020, 08:16 AM | #55 | |
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I had in my online dating profile: "I know that I drive too fast. I'm trained and safe. If you can't handle it, don't bother writing me. Cheers!" It got loads of laughs and the ladies really liked it. If you are like many here, cars and driving are a big part of your life. Why would you engage in a relationship that would destroy such a big part of your life? It's nonsensical. Make a good decision. Relationships can be work but you shouldn't to compromise on something so fundamental to your life. As someone said earlier: Run. Good luck.
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I thought I was a good person but the way I react when people drive slowly in the left lane would suggest otherwise
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10-22-2020, 11:33 AM | #58 |
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I have been married for over 11 years and my wife think I'm a lunatic when it comes to driving. I have never been in a car accident in my 20+ year of driving mind you. But she is a very careful and soft driver while I like to "enjoy my ride".
I think what the OP posted is more related to being in a relationship that the actual act of driving itself, it would definitely help to talk to her calmly and let her know how it actually makes you feel when she makes these comments. Communication is key, unfortunately it took me over 10 years to figure that out Good luck and thanks for sharing! |
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10-22-2020, 11:50 AM | #60 |
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I think you should move on OP. Too many people settle and driving is an everyday thing that is bound to escalate.
From two previous relationship, neither liked my driving. The second time though, it got ugly and we fought in the car to the point where I pulled over and kicked him out. I found my husband shortly after, who also has an interest in fast cars, and was 1000% times the man anyone I had met prior could be, in every way possible. Good things come to those who wait is all Im sayin |
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my wife constantly bitches how unsafe I am when I drive despite having 0 crashes over 2 decades and I sit comfortably when she drives despite her record of 5 crashes in 3 years drive(she stresses none were her fault though insurers deemed all 5 her fault lol)
so I let her drive always. no bitching I can get chauffeured around and the risk is another crash but that's less painful than her bitching when I drive. |
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Back to the point, here's how to drive a BMW (and have your chick appreciate that): "Brush your boobies!". |
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10-23-2020, 07:12 AM | #66 |
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So, I'm waiting for my home office to stop barfing on the new 'upgrades' and amusing myself with this; my thoughts:
1-asking for relationship advice on the OTDB means you are either hopelessly doomed, or just needing another round of self-abuse. Buy a magic 8-ball for better results. 2-regardless of the topic, issues where one of you is making the other uncomfortable benefit from serious talk (unless it is a blunder or s/t you'd readily change); when it is bothering both of you this becomes essential. Just avoiding the situation only reinforces the tension on the relationship. 3-driving is unquestionably the most dangerous activity most people engage in, and you really need to reserve your 'I'm a super driver' rap for when you are alone in the car. That 'are you dead? how many accidents do I have' reasoning works just as well for Russian Roulette. If you are making passengers uncomfortable, then that is a form of failed driving skill in routine commuting (not that I don't sometimes take this 'fail', but I don't try to dress it up as really being better). I try to use my commutes to work on modal skills, rather than than FTD. Any clod can brake hard on the street, but can you bring the car to a smooth imperceptible stop? and can you do it by gauging and applying a steady brake pressure, without needing to modulate? Try taking turns this way too - smooth steady input to a stable point that will hold a good line all thru the turn. Or placing your wheels exactly where you intend using all those pavement wrinkles and patch spots as targets. 4-careful about inviting her to a driving school if your ego is as fragile as it appears. There are many great stories among instructors of guys who bring the little lady out to impress her, but end up with her outdoing them in terms of skill and speed. That crap about your superior male 'spatial ability' is reductionistic nonsense; There isn't that much difference, and driving (especially on the street) is much more about tactics than skills anyway (that's why young adults are MOST risky, and older adults are LEAST risky, despite all the physio traits favoring the young). And I think that link should read "brace your boobies" |
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