Ok, ladies and gents what do you say about this spreadsheet?
A Reddit user named throwwwwaway29 over-shared the spreadsheet with the universe on Friday and it was quickly picked up by various websites over the weekend.
*Here’s how she presented it under the headline “My husband [M26] sent a rude, argumentative email as I [F26] was on the way to the airport for a 10-day work trip. Now he has cut contact.” in the “Relationships” section of Reddit:
Yesterday morning, while in a taxi on the way to the airport, Husband sends a message to my work email which is connected to my phone. He’s never done this, we always communicate in person or by text. I open it up, and it’s a sarcastic diatribe basically saying he won’t miss me for the 10 days I’m gone.
Attached is a SPREADSHEET of all the times he has tried to initiate sex since June 1st, with a column for my “excuses”, using verbatim quotes of why I didn’t feel like having sex at that very moment. According to his ‘document’, we’ve only had sex 3 times in the last 7 weeks, out of 27 “attempts” on his part.
Here is the accompanying spreadsheet he put together:
But, what astounded me most is the response from many of my male friends. Apparently, this has touched a very raw nerve:
- “Your new article is hitting very close to home! I have a spread sheet!”
- “One of my favorites is “I just washed my face & put stuff on.” (Face cream) with women in their late 40’s/early 50’s get the hot flashes which, oddly, gives them cold hands as they go through menopause. It’s brutal.”
- “No sex while kids in the house is one of my friends big problems. He has 3 girls oldest is 12.”
- “Whatever happened to hot sex in the bathroom stall when you are married? Now if there aren’t at least 800 thread count sheets it’s a turn off.”
- “This guy with the spreadsheet is genius!!!”
- “He’s getting more in the past 3 months than I got all of last year!”
- “Tell him I’d really appreciate an Ap for my iPhone – that would make keeping track of this a whole lot easier… with a pull down menu for frequently used excuses…..Opening up the laptop in bed to update the spreadsheet is just bad form…”