My wife’s obsession & how I handled it

It’s easy to say that we find something interesting when we like it to begin with. But it can be truly upsetting convincing your partner who refuses to hear you out. My wife is a self-confessed shopaholic. Mall of Asia threw a huge sale/bazaar last month and as expected, my wife knew about it days before it was released in the press. She didn’t have the time to go given her loaded schedule at work. She’s a pre-school teacher at a small private school in Makati.  But because of her extreme need for retail therapy after every payday, she makes use of our Sundays off to make a quick stop to do her shopping errands. And now that we just scheduled a meeting to one of my sister’s broker for a one bedroom unit along Shaw Blvd, she has added furniture to her itinerary making each Sunday more grueling than the previous one. A teacher in control sounds harmless but it is a lot more intimidating in person.

            I opened up to my wife how I understood it was important for her to try out every piece of clothing she saw on the rack that she liked. But I asserted how much time furniture window shopping was killing our only day out as a family (minus the kids for now). We have roughly around two months to buy whatever it is we need when we move in. It would be great if we could maximize our time together now so we wouldn’t feel so neglected from having such in the future especially around the time of then move in. When my sister moved out of our house in Paranaque after getting married to her husband, she tried out a new method she read online about maximizing internet usage through different online applications and activities. One of which was ordering online for instances like move ins to lessen the load of transfer. 

            Online shopping correlates to house deliveries. If before meet ups were all the rage, sellers now are a lot more practical. You can’t really get a 30” plasma TV with matching speakers in a mall (if that’s where you want to meet) without being pulled aside. Practically speaking, shipments via LBC or other delivery establishments is more recommended. My sister bought her large items from Lazada exactly three days before their scheduled move in. She bought an air conditioning unit, microwave, washing machine and a two-door wood cabinet all delivered straight to their new apartment. I told my wife about it and she stayed indifferent towards the idea for an entire week. She said she felt I wasn’t trying to be involved in the whole process and I was opting to choose the easy way out. She sounded ridiculous so I had my sister talk some sense out of her. There’s seriously something about women conversing. Somehow, you girls have a way of communicating and understanding each other in a way us men will never be able to master.