Men Keeping Promises

[WH's OutdoorsChick]

I was just wondering why you guys will make promises and then not keep them… I know that when I make promises and I have the opportunity to keep them, I do….Why is it that men will promise things and not keep them… Do they change their mind or is it because they just don’t care? Please give me some insight on this????

 

[MarvB]

Ahhh...I think the answer to that is yes..

 

[Hangar18]

Yes...it is NO.


ODC - Is this one man breaking promises or a men in general seem to break promises? In my experience, it is the opposite. Women used to promise to call me all the time, but never did. I really felt used.

 

[mtmiller]

Anybody want to use me, I'm a sure thing.

 

[wyomingtim]

Well, as for me, I don't make promises unless I am sure that I can follow through. Now, if something beyond my control prevents me from following through then I will make sure that the person I made the promise to knows prior to the time for performance. Now, if it was a promise that someone did or did not do/say something then it is just a lie. That is a question of personal integrity. I think this goes both ways though. Some people will do anything to get what they want.

 

[wyomingtim]

OK, I just read the other post. Go buy the sheets for yourself. Of course it is up to you if you want to share those sheets.

 

[dgibson]

Sounds to me like Washington Hunter is in the doghouse to me!

I know that when I make promises and I have the opportunity to keep them, I do.

Maybe he just has less opportunities!

 

[Delw]

Try Dear Abby, I am sure she has some words of wisdom

Delw

 

[cjcj]

Every promise is differant, some you can keep some are impossible, once on a long road trip i promised my wife i wouldn`t fart anymore! I broke that promise over and over, you have to tell us what/who broke what promise so we [as a group] can dissect it.

 

[IdahoCritterGetter]

no offense but men/women and anything that speaks lies; some more than others, some verbal as others lie to themselves anyhow it's life. Live and learn. .......And these are the days of our lives!

 

[Michaelr]

 

[Nut]

Vipe nevers worries about the "alleged" promises I make. 99% of the time I just plain forget about what I say. But luckily she doesnt say I promised, just that I said this or that. It keeps things just fine that way.

 

[feclnogn]

Why is it that men will promise things and not keep them

Because we want a piece of azz.

they just don’t care

Now your on to something.

Sometimes I will make a promise just becuz I'm tired of listening to someone go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on......

and lastly we do it becuz we are men and it is one of our god given rights.

 

[Mojave]

A. Short attention span. Most can't remember they made the promise in the first place.

B. Pride. When you remind them they made the promise, they don't want to look like idiots for letting it slip their minds so they cover by saying they don't remember making the promise in the first place.

C.

piece of azz

fecl ain't wrong. Almost everything a man does boils down to this.

Seriously Aimee, pick your battles. This doesn't sound like a bigee in the scheme of things. Plus, instead of harping try working with the pride and short attention span. When he asks why you picked up the sheets, you reply "You told me to do it last week, don't you remember? Besides the color compliments your eyes, oh and by the way I'm so in the mood."

Short attention span strikes again.

 

[mtmiller]

feclnogn--now that is funny sheet and so true.

 

[Tom]

A promise means I want to do that. If all goes well, it will happen. Something usually does not go right, if it was a hard promise to keep or it seemed pretty trivial and something important happened. You have to say, I'm really counting on this, so don't promise it, if its not going to work. Its no fair saying, I'm really counting on it, after the promise, because it might have been a lousy promise for a trivial thing, then after the promise, you claim importance.

Like, I promised we'll meet for a beer, that's an important one. But, I promise we'll go to the mall for new curtains, that's a trivial one since the old curtains are great. If you want to go for new curtains and take a guy, its best to meet at the mall with a bar and then go from the curtain place, as soon as we get curtains, for a beer. Maybe even say, lets meet at the mall with the bar, stop in one store, then go get a beer. Does that help any?

 

[JB]

Do they change their mind or is it because they just don’t care?

we dont care.


i remember back when i was a young buck....told one of my first girlfriends "yeah honey, i promise i wont___________ (you fill in blank)"
ofcourse i didnt keep that promise....i didnt care!

 

[cjcj]

The blank! I.W.C.I.Y.M.

 

[powderburn]

cjcj isn't that a little premajure

 

[The Viperess]

I made 2 promises to Nut and I have keep them.

One of them TE keeps trying to get me to break and I wont do it. I made that one over 20 years ago and it still stands for me. I will not make one if I cant keep it,

for got one I made to my kids that they would never see me drunk' and that they would never have to live with a drunk for a parent. this is one even Fred has made to the boys.