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Wife thinks I'm losing it...

Sometimes I wish I had just taken the blue pill and can go back inside the Matrix. My wife and I are at odds over quite a few issues lately...GMO foods is the latest. After the French gmo rat study...I don't want the kids near the stuff. This is causing all kinds of friction over sodas, eating out, etc. The argument last night was over Halloween and the HFCS in the candy I don't want the kids eating.

She thinks I'm losing it and have turned into the most UNfun person around. Maybe she's right.

GMO, Chemtrails, Agenda 21, 9-11, coming dollar and financial collapse, etc, etc, etc,....it just never seems to stop. This rabbit hole I'm in seems to be a bottomless pit.




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Don't make yourself a nervous

Don't make yourself a nervous wreck. Someday, I feel like I'm like that. Remember to take it all in stride. There are some things we can control and others we can't. Those you can't, simply prepare for what could happen, keep eyes open, and let it go. And even though you are worried about the corn (so am I), we don't always know which products have the GMO corn. For peace in your family, I'd do a compromise and simply limit consumption. That's what has happened in my household. Seems to work.

Remember what morpheus said,

"Unfortunatley no one can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself."
My wife was the same way. she voted and campaigned for Obama in 08 right before I met her. We disagreed on most of the gotcha political issues and she suspected I was paranoid. She has come to agree with me on just about everything. I think at this point she knows I'm telling the truth, but part of her still doesn't want to believe that she had ever not known it all. Its gotta be tough to accept somebody who wants to tear down everything you thought the world was...
My method was to not directly oppose her or force feed the red pill, because that would only solidify her opposition more. she was not ready to accept truth so i had to present it slowly, piecemeal. Gently and indirectly inject the idea. Socratic questioning is effective too, but think it through beforehand.

For food issues, I just totally took on the role of cook. She went from eating out and microwaving boxed food to eating home cooked meals out of the garden. I took it as my responsibility to to make my fresh food taste better than the stuff with msg and aspartame. Herbs, spices, the 'fond' from seared meat can have onions sauteed on it and then deglazed with any liquid for an awesome pan sauce. and it cleans your pan.

Stop worrying. Maybe take a

Stop worrying. Maybe take a break from politics and then when you come back, catch up, but keep quiet about politics for awhile when you are at home. That's what I did when my husband complained about my involvement a couple of years ago. He was pretty much apolitical up till then, although he did always like Ron Paul.

This year for the first time he went to the caucus and conventions with me. He got caught up when he found out how much power one had when one becomes a delegate. He then became a delegate, as well. All that time I was not pushy. I let him take the lead on his participation level.

At home I kept what I read and believed to myself. But never once did I hide my passion about liberty at those conventions. He was taken by surprise when he saw this new side of me and he liked what he saw. I spoke before large assemblies. I knew Roberts Rules. I knew which way to vote on planks and rules. He met all the nice people I had met over the past few years. He never has complained once this past year.

You can fix this. I did. Good luck.

Maybe you should try....

respecting your kids' individual choice, instead of trying to shove every Alex Jones conspiracy theory down your family's throats?

I don't play, I commission the league.

Who Mentioned Alex Jones?

I don't think anyone is trying to shove anything down anyone's throat. Hmmm "respecting our kids individual choice" eh? My kids are 4 and 6, they would eat high HFCS, sucralose, hot dogs and candy all day long if we left it up to them. Get a grip, parenting is our job and we have to put our kids on the right road

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy

Parenting from the opposite extreme...

being super-strict and not letting your kids do ANYTHING, never works either - especially when it's based on esoteric fears derived from deeply flawed studies that young kids wouldn't understand or care about.

I don't play, I commission the league.

I empathize with you, these comments are way too harsh

They must not understand what your going through

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"give me control of my own permaculture and I care a lot about what makes law"

-Permaculture Republican

I'm in the same situation

You have to stay strong, find a alternative fun solution better than their dependence But all is well in moderation of course

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"give me control of my own permaculture and I care a lot about what makes law"

-Permaculture Republican

Don't force or become a sourpuss. You just need to educate.

Making them them aware of it is important, but you can't be forcing, coercing, nagging, or generally become a sour puss. I personally wouldn't take away Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmans, and etc.

You've been eating the crap

You've been eating the crap your entire life yet you're ready to deprive your kids of a few pieces of candy on the second best holiday of the year for kids?

Stop being an idiot. They aren't going to get cancer because they ate a few Reeses Cups.

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That crap he's been eating his entire life has changed with the

advancements in genetics. Dude! Pick up a book before you pontificate on stuff you don't understand. They are making frankin-food out of everything. They are modifying food at the very least to make it more addictive. They admit that already.

You need to read up on Monsanto and understand their motivations. I'll give you a clue. Their motivation isn't to feed the world and make us healthier.

keep saying that to yourself

i'm sure a little cancer you can deal with.

LOL! Right on! Stop being a

LOL! Right on! Stop being a dictator in your own family!

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Ben Franklin

Moderation...

Halloween is 1 time a year. let the kids get the candy, let them eat some candy... use moderation... when we were young, our parents would regulate the candy we collected on holloween, if we ate too much at once, they would just take it all from us...

moderation is the key with many things... just don't feed them HFCS every day, maybe you can take their candy and "Trade it in" (throw\give it away and get different kinds) for some real sugar candy, etc...

i dunno, just a suggestion for ya...

moderation IS the key to many things, you're right.

but not with poison. sorry.

True

The candy 30 or 40 years ago didn't have HFCS or hydrogenated oils and did not have GMO ingredients or the deadly Aspartame.

Real gum including bubblegum without all the above poison.
http://www.gleegum.com/

November 6th 2012 I voted for Dr.Ron Paul
"We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects." ~ Ron Paul

All

you can do is provide the information to them...if they don't want to follow in your footsteps with food etc. then that's their choice. Indvidiual liberty. I hear ya though...it's tough knowing this stuff and getting it through to other people.

I feel that way about my

I feel that way about my wife, but not young kids. It's my job as a parent to watch over what goes into their bodies.

yeah

i agree. I've known a couple people struggling with chronic illness (chronic fatigue, Lymes, Fibro) who attribute everything to the way we live our lives these days (chemicals, GMOs, water supply etc). I agree with you...kids should be protected by their parents until they can make up their own minds.

You got there on your own, did anyone force you?

Don't force the wife and kids, or else you will only guarantee that they will never get to where you are. Lead by example, find positive opportunities to explain why you are doing what you are doing for yourself. Control over others is an illusion, but the illusion often temps us to make it reality by using force. But that "reality" is also an illusion, since any compliance on their part is only an illusion to fool you into stopping said force. Rinse, repeat. Same situation here, wife is always on my case about eating fried eggs over easy, a true believer in conventional wisdom.

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RON PAUL 2012

Your wife is a stupid cow

and a liability.

I would not be surprised if you are on the news eventually being hauled off for having too many guns and it's your wife who called the cops saying she was afraid that you were "getting crazy" or something.

It seems like she wants back into the matrix, if she ever left.

All you have are facts and your arguments, but in her "arsenal" there's an entire system complete with cops and prisons that are ready to haul you off and take everything you have and all she has to do is lose an argument and decide "well, I'll show him" and pick up the phone.

You probably love her, but you should also consider in those zombie movies when someone meets their zombified loved-ones and fails to act properly - they go about saying "but it's her! Look she's here" and the others are like "dude, she's turned, she JUST LIKE THE OTHERS!" but what happens?

Yea, somebody gets bitten. You know the rest.

Get out of there.

life was good until i joined

life was good until i joined the republican party/gop. I am beginning to think the gop is just a virus! I am ready to say f it all after this election. Being involved in the gop is like having all diseases at once!

the only cure i see is to leave it and flush it into a septic tank where it belongs.

after nov 6th, i think the closest i will get to politics is my snowboard!

Ron Paul 2012

I'm fading away..

I kept telling myself that I would stay involved after Ron Paul....but I don't think I have it in me. I cant stand being around these phony-baloneys.

I am having these problems

I am having these problems with my husband. Last night he picked up some things from the grocery and brought home campbells soup, they line their cans with BPA, not to mention I'm sure there is gmo in there. I just told him i don't want to get that kind anymore and he got a little pissy wondering what can he buy. I told him I can't help it, I cannot call myself a good mother and knowingly put garbage into their bodies and I'm not going to let him make me feel bad for it. I know it's a hassle but seriously, these are our kids we're talking about here. We already have an aspy, I'm not risking anything more.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ~ George Orwell

consider gardening

And canning your own if that is a possibility. It'll be more constructive than worrying, you'll save some money, and gety some good exercise. You might be amazed how much food you can get out of a 500 or 1000 square foot kitchen garden. If you take up canning, look to craigslist or freecycle for equipment, many peo[ple are literally giving it away.

Josh Brueggen
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Gardener
Jack of all Trades
Precinct Commiteeman Precinct 5 Rock Island Co Illinois

Josh, 100% agree. We're

Josh,

100% agree. We're looking to move right now. Several in my community have run into issues over gardens with our HOA.

How old are your children?

My husband and I have been teaching my daughter, 15yrs old now, since she was 9 about the dangers of GMO's, Hormones, pesticides, etc. We eat mainly organic and always GMO-free. She has never had a problem going trick or treating with her friends and then giving them the candy to take home. We always took her to Whole Foods the day before to buy some candy to eat also. I have never told her she can't eat the candy she got on Halloween, it was always her own decision and there were times she would eat a snickers or something and that was enough for her. The coolest thing is that my daughter thinks it is so gross that people eat fast food. She hasn't had fast food since she was about 5yrs old and doesn't even remember it. She says the smell of those places makes her gag and can't imagine it tastes any better than it smells :)
I hope your wife comes around. We need all the clean (gmo-free) children we can get to keep our race alive in the future. With the studies, it shows that 3rd and 4th generations can become sterile. That would not be good for the future of the human race.
Maybe have her check out the documentary "Future of Food" it is a very good film for educating on the effects of GMO's in our food supply.

-Jacky
TX

always remember freedom.

It is your freedom to eat right and do the things that will improve your life/health. It is her freedom to choose not too, and it is when the children are under one another control is when the decisions for the child should be made. If she is winning every time for the children to eat shit food... then maybe you are not presenting the idea fair enough/with a good solution right in hand. Or maybe you need to tell the lady that clearly you are not raising your children, she is.. and maybe you wont live with that.

as for you being crazy.... we all are a little crazy especially in a time of heightened awareness of the collapse coming. You must take over the finances and get into physical things and wipe away any debt the government can use over you. It time like these we must stop being a nagging old father and be a man

also, meditate and run...

also, meditate and run... that is how i have been relieving some stress

Balance, compromise, and moderation

Maybe you should see about a deal with your wife. Show her the rat study (I havent seen it), make your case, then compromise on what things you think are off limits but your wife thinks are okay. Maybe it's okay on holidays if you first both tell your kids that this candy should be very rarely eaten or preferably not at all. Your kids will still be in a much physically healthier environment and with a bit of balance and less friction it will be emotionally healthier as well.