My wife married into my Warhammer collection. We have a Warhammer room. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even like Warhammer but has her own painted figurines.

Can relate, then at some point I realized, she barely ever eats peanut butter. So now we still have almost exclusively smooth.

why not just buy your own peanut butter?

We do that, similar situation and 2 different peanut butters. Also if your SO likes something why not buy it for them.

Funny joke. Boomer go Ha Ha.

My wife likes Skippy, I like Jif.

We keep a jar of each around and use each other's in a pinch.

I do love the Warhammer comparison though. My wife and I have a D&D collection. She does not play D&D. Her part of the collection is the Lego D&D minifigs.

i mean you're an adult, you can buy your own jar and enjoy whatever you like in parallel, why are people like that?

One time, while on dispatch for a client, I was stuck on the phone with their ISP. Behind me were all of the company interns, arguing about peanut butter.

It’s always stuck with me for two reasons. 1: One guy was arguing that crunchy peanut butter was like regular peanut butter, but with added wasps. 2: I regret every day that I did not ask the Comcast guy to weigh in over the phone.

"Let me tell you something. I have not controlled a SINGLE financial decision in this house since 1987 and I am PAYING for it. I put a ROOF over this woman's head for 40 YEARS and somehow SHE controls the checkbook. Every week she does the shopping WITHOUT me, like I am not the one whose PENSION is funding the whole OPERATION. I fought for this country and I cannot get a peanut butter with some TEXTURE because apparently BARBARA knows best about EVERYTHING now."

Can you not just buy... two jars of peanut butter?

crunchy peanut butter was like regular peanut butter, but with added wasps.

I have so many questions about what that guy thought peanut butter is, and what it's made of.

A healthy relatinship is also one where both partners understand, respects and upholds the other's right to have personal preferences and enjoy them.

The most basic show of respect here would be to have two separate jars of peanut butter, so both can enjoy their favorite.

Most people have pleasure when seeing their loved ones having pleasure themselves. It shows affection and care for the other and is a basic show of empathy.

It's a good post for the laughs but it is a depressing admission for a relationship that long.

What are the consequences of the dude buying a separate peanut butter jar for him? Divorce? Accusations of lying and being unfaithful by thought?

Smooth peanut butter if you like crunchy is just a minor disappointment. Crunchy if you like smooth is like eating gravel paste.

Bisexuality 😏

Been married 11 years. I like Crunchy peanut butter, my wife is allergic to peanuts. I only eat peanut butter crackers when I travel for work because I eat light on days I travel and peanut butter is mostly fats and oils anyway.

Exactly. It's that tired old stereotype that you either have to have an adversarial relationship with your SO, or let them have their way all the time... Did you not both agree to a partnership!?

his wife does all the grocery shopping and he refuses to do domestic chores, so her revenge is never buying crunchy peanut butter

yup then it's fully deserved and he's not an adult, he's a manchild

I do the shopping, i buy her smooth and me crunchy. How is that difficult? Love does not require suffering.

You can add your own peanuts… all peanut butter is creamy in the beginning, that’s what they do to make it crunchy.

If you’re going to get a divorce over peanut butter, you might be better off alone. But that’s just my political opinion.

We compromised by having no kind of peanut butter! (Our kid is allergic)

He was probably confusing peanut butter with figs.

I think he really just didn’t like the texture. I can’t see the reasoning still, but I’ll admit at the time, his argument swayed me.

...You know what? That makes as much sense as anything else I can think of.

That settles it. The straights are absolutely not OK. I need no other evidence.

As a life-long peanut butter enthusiast who loves all kinds of peanut butter, I actually think this is BETTER than buying a jar of each. I keep a jar of regular peanuts and honey roasted peanuts for exactly this

Maybe you should do the shopping then someday.

They are still working on emptying the 80 gallon drum of smooth peanut butter they got at their wedding.

Yeah some decisions require picking one or the other. A $4 jar of peanut butter doesn't seem like one of those things.

I don't think that's fair as a blanket statement

I think it's from a time when people(both men and women, but mostly women) married for social and economic reasons. Those reasons kept people in relationships who had long since checked out.

Now it resonates with fewer people because women can leave bad relationships more easily.

That's also why I assume the manisphere is a thing because there are a lot of sour people who are upset they are not owed a person just for existing.

Yeah, the wasps thing had me thinking he might've had an allergy, but probably wouldn't be eating smooth peanut butter either then...

“We couldn’t possibly buy two jars of peanut butter.”

Both Skippy and Jif are added-sugar garbage.

Adams is where it's at.

i get the bullshit of the joke. but many relationships aren't about compromise, they are about who wins and who loses. and once you start losing you stay down, been in one of those. 5 suicide attempt later and I still get PTSD attacks.

He doesn't do the shopping. He could easily go to the shops himself.

A relationship shouldn't be like that. If your partner makes you feel like this, leave them.

it got really abusive, but it's hard to get out. kids were involved, and she had control of my finances, so no lawyer would even advice me. and as a guy there were no resources for me. When I call the cops because I was being beaten, all they did is tell me that if I touched her they'll lock me up.

He didn’t claim the relationship had solid foundations.

Wife bad. Haha.

My dad likes crunchy peanut butter, and my mom likes smooth. I grew up in a two peanut butter jar household. Despite decades of that, they are still married today.

Some say it's impossible

Peak comedy

As a gay guy, I don't think that's a straight exclusive thing.

Are you free now?

My mother likes Scott brand toilet paper. My father likes Charmin. My father installed a second spool holder next to the toilet. One is loaded with Scott, the other with Charmin. They'll celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary this year.

If "we like different brands/styles of household consumable goods" isn't a solvable problem, if you solve it by buying one of each kind so everybody gets what they want, and your partner goes to un-solve it...unpartner them, because they're unfit.

This. Lazy ass man, cant be arsed to go shopping. Thinks it’s a “woman’s job”. Complains when she doesnt serve his wishes.

I solved the problem by liking both.