husband's doess not wants to celebrate good times with me

@goodtogo (149)
Pakistan
December 13, 2008 1:24pm CST
These good times or bad times are specifically related to my family.Now here what i mean to say is that i really want my husband to share everything related to me.It can be good or bad times with my family.and everything related to them.Although he is not a very outgoing person so i don't want to force him all the time going to my family occasions.but this is also true that i love him a lot and can;t live without him even for a single night.Now the problem is that if there is any occasion in his family i always try to go there and spend good time there chatting and giving company to his family members.But naturally i expect the same from him because ours is a love marriage so i don;'t want anybody to feel that i've chosen the wrong person.Now i just went to a mehendi function of my cousin.She came all the way from England.Now all my cousins were there thier husband's droped them picked them up.and stayed at somewhere else till thier wives are free.but i came here with my father to attend my family function.i just wish my husband to be with me all the time.
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@GhostCat (313)
• United States
14 Dec 08
I understand your pain and your dilemma. I too have a problem with my husband and my family functions, although in my case it is not that my husband refuses to go to them with me, but frequently in the middle of them he wanders out to the car and sits until I am ready to leave. And when he is around them he doesn't say much, not that he is impolite, he just does not have much to say to them. Not that I have a whole lot to say to them. My parents are no longer alive and if these were not my siblings and their children I would not know them, as we have nothing in common and not much to talk about. I finally got to the place where I decided that it was easier for me, easier for my husband and possibly easier for my family to just leave my husband at home, although there is one sister who's feelings are really hurt when my husband doesn't show up, but her feeling as just as hurt when he does show up and does not seem really excited to be there. It is just easier for me if he is not there. I wish you good luck with your husband and your family. Obviously you like your family more than I like mine and probably had my husband and I not taken one of my sisters daughters in too live with us for her high school years and function as additional grandparents I probably wouldn't still be associating with my family. As I said, good luck with your family and your husband. Happy Holidays.
@GhostCat (313)
• United States
15 Dec 08
Goodtogo, I really feel badly for you. I don't think my husbands behavior is quite that bad. It really sounds as though your husband really does not want to have anything to do with your family. My husband just has nothing in common with my family and finds it difficult to make small talk even with the men in the family. As I think I mentioned, my parents passed long before I got married, but I think they would understand and they knew that I had nothing in common with my brother and sisters, and I only spend time with them for the sake of my niece who grew up with us and her children. If your husband just doesn't want to spend time with your family and it isn't because he finds it difficult to be around them because he is uncomfortable, he is just being rude to both you and your family and could use a mind adjustment. I would suggest that you leave him at home, but that might make things even more difficult with your family. I really do wish you good luck. I hope you have a friend who you can talk with about this because this can be very stressful, especially during the holidays and other special occasions like weddings. I will be thinking about you during this holiday season and hope everything goes well. You keep stressing that yours is a love marriage. Are you from a culture that does not encourage love marriages? Is there perhaps some resentment between your husband and your parents becuase your parents wanted you to marry someone else?
@goodtogo (149)
• Pakistan
15 Dec 08
Thanks a lot Ghostcat for discusing all this with me.Same is the case with me sometimes.My husband is waiting outside or messaging me or just showing me his anger and dua to that i come out.this is the case when ho goes with me.On our way he continues to tell me that he is going just for me and it is not of his interest and he tells me to come out as early as possible.and if there are three functions in a wedding he just attends one and even than he ex[pects me to say thanks to him because he is going in a function which is related to me.All this is so difficult to handle and more difficult in a situation like mine of love marriage because i can't tell anything to my parents anmd show them all the time that my husband is very good and caring and he always makes me happy etc.but noone can imagine my feelings at that time when my tears come out evry time after that.
@LaurenInLA (2270)
• United States
13 Dec 08
I agree with LatinaLoveBug, you need to have a conversation with your husband. He may not realize how important it is to you that he attend your family functions. My husband attends mine and I attend his and I wouldn't want to have it any other way. When we got married, I married into his family and he into mine. Over the years, I've become so close to some of his family members that I love them as much as I do my own. If you both give it the same chance, I think that you will find that it will be the same for the two of you.
@goodtogo (149)
• Pakistan
13 Dec 08
you are right but you know i talked to him but he really is not interested that these are the things that make me happy.he just see them as something not necessary in our relationship.
• United States
13 Dec 08
Once again, I agree with LatinaLoveBug. The point is that he does things that are important to you because he cares about you. You do things that you don't want to do that are important to him, don't you? It is time for a conversation but perhaps a much more serious one than the initial suggestion. Marriage is a two way street and BOTH parties have to compromise if you are to have a successful and happy marriage.
@srhelmer (7029)
• Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
14 Dec 08
As a person who isn't very outgoing, I can tell you he probably doesn't mind doing that for you but his silence is probably just who he is. It's not a habit that's easy to change.
@LCHBheart (167)
• Singapore
14 Dec 08
People need some space. If you crowd one another too much, you'll end up repelling each other. Guys are like cats. If you crowd them, they will stay away from you. If you give them their space, they will go to you. Don't be with them for the sake of being with them. Be with them for the joy it can bring you, but also have other activities to keep you occupied.
• India
14 Dec 08
I know this thing happens really often amongst couples... what to do?? I feel if men start ignoring their ego, probably it will be better if not the best... even my sister is facing the same problems here in Delhi. She is so pissed off at her husband cause he doesn't pay proper interest to her family and expects her to do all for his family, so she has currently stopped doing anything according to his wishes... She plans her own day and does things accordingly... I find her much more happier now!!1 Probably you should try this, make him feel the same thing... how it feels if someone who is most important in your life just stops respecting your wishes and demands!!!... I hope, everything settles down soon..I feel you start taking care of happiness!!! Take loads of Care...God bless you always!!..:) Keep smiling...:)