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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:41 pm
Is anyone watching this? I really enjoyed it, but man, what a collection of oblivious (and I'm being kind) men this town has.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 11:35 pm
duplicate thread
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 11:15 am
The Week the Women Went is premiering tonight on the CBC at 8 pm Eastern for those Canadians looking for anything but reruns.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 12:04 pm
I will be tuning in. The previews give just enough info to make it interesting but not enough that I have any clue what the point of the show is. LOL Hope it's worth it.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 7:09 pm
I'm recording it tonight TWTWW tonight. I hope it's good.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 7:14 pm
Miz, so far it looks like it could be a lot of fun.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:00 pm
Wow, just finished watching the premiere. I really enjoyed it. A real social experiment rather than a typical reality show. Just with a few seconds on each of the families, don't you already feel emotionally invested? Have to say that if I left home for a week, my hubby would miss me but cope just fine with kids and home so part of me feels like there is all this build-up to what? But you can easily see that some of these men will not cope and some will excel. Looking forward to next weeks episode. PS LMAO at the women who were drinking on the bus before it even started driving out of town.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 9:19 pm
Rissa, my reality show snob dh actually watched this one with me, and we had a few good chuckles. Some of these guys are going to be in so much trouble. A lot of those never-touched-a-rag-or-diaper types. It will be so much fun watching them sweat it. Some may really surprise us and come through with flying colours. It will be interesting to see which ones.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 5:39 am
My dh was on the treadmill but I am going to ask him to watch it tonight, will definately start some conversations as the season progresses. True story and I never fail to drop my jaw when telling this. Years ago we went to Florida with one of my hubby's friends and his family. We stayed in a condo (5th floor) on Daytona beach. In the afternoons dh, myself, our dds would go down to the beach with friends wife and their eldest child. The friend would stay in the condo to take a nap with their two little ones (age 2 and 1). When the babies woke up, either hungry, dirty diapers or just awake... friend would get up, hang a towel over the balcony and go back to bed. The towel was the wife's cue to come take care of the screaming babies so she had to keep one eye on the condo all afternoon. I tried to confront him over and over on this and he would just laugh and say he told his wife from day 1 that he doesn't do baby duty (told her day 1 of the birth, neglected to mention it while getting her pregnant LOL). Couples set up the *chores* in a relationship based on ability, time, etc. But it always slays me when I meet couples where one party just refuses to do certain chores. There are a couple of those in this show.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 6:19 am
LOL, Rissa, it takes all kinds. The "two little people, both under age 5, how hard can it be?" fellow will be interesting to watch. Is he ever in for an eye opener.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 10:59 am
I haven't watched it yet but you guys have made it intriguing for me. Rissa--My husband is one of those guys. Very old school (even though he's 9 years younger than me!!) about 'women's duties'. Pisses me off! However, he's not like the towel guya and I won't allow him to get that bad! Shameful!
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Hmmmm, well you know what 'they' say. Y'teach people how to treat you... I'm going to try to catch this, sounds interesting.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Exactly Dahli. Maybe the woman with the towel husband is ok with the arrangement? As long as she's happy, who am I to judge. I shouldn't judge anyway. My husband and I have been having struggles since the birth of my daughter 16 months ago. I had no idea he wouldn't be participating in the parenting of our daughter. There is NO WAY I will have another baby with him. Now I'm trying to do my best without fighting constantly in front of baby. Unfortunately I think my marriage will eventually end in a divorce.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 2:56 pm
Actually towel lady spent years (the kids are preteens now) shreiking 24/7. LOL Miz, I am sorry to hear about your struggles. It sounds like the same thing that drove me insane about towel-guy. "I don't DO diapers". What the $*%& does that mean? And how do you fight that? You can't make him do it, all you can do is simmer or walk. The good part is that the older and more independant the child gets the easier it is, so if the marriage is good besides this issue then time will do good.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 4:37 pm
Hey, the mindset is that with or without him, you'll be doing it by yourself so it's no different. How wrong that is. Without him, you won't have to make him happy too, you won't have to do his laundry, make his food, shop for him, wonder why he won't help, etc. Without him, you'll have one less person to take care of, and you can make room for taking care of yourself.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 6:31 pm
Thanks for the words and I that's exactly my thoughts. Same with your thoughts Escapee. It would be one thing if he was contributing in some other way to put back some of my energy but all he does is take take take. He figures if he brings home the bacon that's all he needs to do. Plus he's a work-a-holic and chooses work before family so we hardly see him at all. What's important to him is that his laundry is done and the house clean, why didn't he just get a maid?!! I'm of the same thoughts though about just having me and my daughter to take care of would be way easier.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:19 pm
Ok, I finally watched the first episode WITH my husband. He said not to compare him to those men. LOL The woman who had the affair and has been shunned by the community; it'll be interesting to see how the other women react to her. The woman who also happens to be the sister of the man who's wife had the affair (?! LOL) seems to have a bit of a chip on her shoulder. Her ex is the 'joker' guy. I'm not sure what to make of him yet. I really felt for the woman who has 2 kids and whose husband has only been home a total of 6 days the entire year! She also runs an esthetician business out of her home! Wow is all I can say! She really deserves this get away. They guy with the Mohawk, not sure I like him form the first outtake, didn't like his 'eye rolling' when his wife was talking. I liked the family wiht the woman who has the 3 boys and the husband admitted she connects them all; it was cute she was a bit weepy and so even froze them some meals to get by. Now as for the women who had the babies that looked to be 0-2 years old, I don't know how they got the strength to leave them. I have my first baby who is 16 months tomorrow and I can't imagine going away for a week from her!! Those are all very strong women, all the power to them!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 2:49 pm
LOL - If he agreed to watch it with you, he can't be all that bad. (You didn't tell him it was football, did you?)
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 10:50 pm
I can't wait till the next show. Some of those women really, really deserved to get a holiday. Can't wait to see some of those guys trying to cope. Sorry, Mizinvancouver. That so stinks.
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Fiat
Member
10-07-2004
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Hang in ther Miz.... It sometimes takes a couple a long time to adjust to having a baby. I know it did for my husband and I. He was never around children, I mean never. He was scared to death to even hold our first child. Now that child is 8 and we have three more. He has gotten more involved each time, and now can even get our youngest to sleep---which is something he wouldn't have even tried to do before. Sometimes it seems hopeless, but maybe with time it will improve???
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Thanks for the kind words Puzzled and Fiat. My husband was a 'work-a-holic' even prior to baby. Also not very thoughtful either before baby. So I'm not in this situation with blinders on. There's more to the story but I can't divuldge on here. I just feel like he gets what he wants from the relationship and I don't get my needs met. Apparently my needs aren't as important as his. Looking forward to seeing next weeks episode.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 3:31 pm
anyone besides me KNOW what its like in those oil /Mill/ mining towns? I only wish it was more than just a week. Most guys can bumble thru because they dont 'get it'. For instance, look at the teen partying...where are the fathers? Who the heck wants their underage teenage daughter drunk out of her skull in a field miles away with a hundred teenage boys? These guys are 'men's men' and concerned with their jobs and money. Family life is often nonexistant, as proven by that one guy who was trying to find a quick Contract job so he didnt have to do the show. LOL Didnt his wife say he'd been home five days in the last six months?? I know guys who's families live here in BC and they work there in Alta oilfields. actually, a Military base would also be a good place to do another season. Those guys are gone a lot too. Poor women have nothing to do but eat and Drink to excess (gain weight and battle drinking issues ) That is what cracked me up about this show. The women are obviously just as Booze oriented as the men...always a party. ((just my opinion))
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 3:53 pm
Sun, I take exception to the "having nothing to do but eat and drink to excess" on military bases while the men (and women) are gone. I have lived on enough of them to know differently. Stereo-typing indeed.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:08 pm
quote:That is what cracked me up about this show. The women are obviously just as Booze oriented as the men...always a party.
I didn't get this, I didn't see alcohol as playing a major role in last weeks ep. I was shocked at that 15 year old boys curfew. Did they really say 3:30am and he got in at 5:20am? What? I look forward to seeing if the judgemental ex sister in law reached out to her niece/nephews mom and if the good side of the track women get to now the ladies from the "wrong" side of the tracks.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:55 pm
really? men had booze in their hands in almost every scene AND booze bottles/ tins on counters/ tables and in livingrooms
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