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Competing with your spouse? - 4/20/2008 8:23:02 PM
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funny_girl
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Anyone out there competitive or married to a competitive spouse? Find yourself in competition with him/her?
How are you handeling this?
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/20/2008 10:41:57 PM
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csl7037
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We're both pretty competitive by nature but we're such opposites that it's usually not an issue. Right now you know, for example, we're both have a pretty major fitness goal we're working toward. A big part of me is thinking he is SO not going to do better than me in this! I'm sure he's thinking the same thing. We're both able to use this to our advantage.
The only way we sort of compete that is negative is sometimes in our whiny human nature in situations like subtly competing for the attention or sympathy of who feels worse when we're sick or who had a worse day when we come home tired and grumpy. Stupid meaningless things like that.
Is that something like what you have in mind or is there more to it?
Cynthia
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/21/2008 12:07:36 AM
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funny_girl
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That's great Cynthia! I wish you and your hubby great success on your program! My husband and I got fit together and that's when I realized just how competitive I am! I'd get so mad when I couldn't keep up with him. We'd be out mountain bike riding and he's riding extra, circles around me and I'm ticked off cause I couldn't make my body go faster! I got really tone and that was sooooo cool! Then we moved to Mexico and well, our lives have changed and we have to figure out other ways to stay fit. I miss the bike!
We've known each other since we were 14 and so there's a tendency like siblings between us but we've pretty much overcome it, I think.
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/21/2008 6:03:49 AM
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I don't think we compete with each other much. BUT we do team up and compete against others on occassion. All in fun.
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/22/2008 11:24:52 PM
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Sadey
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Hows this for competitive.
If my husband and I died at the same time, he would be deader then me. 
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/25/2008 5:47:59 AM
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My spouse is extremely competitive and I am not the least bit wired that way.
If I have anything, he has to have something better. He's always sicker, more tired, more angry whatever you name it.
I refuse to play the game with him so I've taken quite a bit of steam out of his sails. He doesn't get to "win" anymore. Figure out what you give from this and what you get - then you can stop the behavior.
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/25/2008 9:45:01 AM
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csl7037
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So after two weeks of cleaning up his diet a bit, dh announced "Look, I've got my 4-pack back!" GGGGGRRRRRR! Men! Metilac, I also just broke my toe. I've got to ge back to cardio!!! Not fair at all.
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/25/2008 12:39:35 PM
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We are both very competitive. He always has to prove that he is better than me. I'm a runner and triathlete. I'm competing against others in my age group. Hubby went to the gym with me once. He saw that I'm better than him (I was doing the workout my coach had down for the day), and since then won't go back. Whatever. I just wish he'd go to the gym!
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/25/2008 4:58:31 PM
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csl7037
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ORIGINAL: his_chosen
We are both very competitive. He always has to prove that he is better than me. I'm a runner and triathlete. I'm competing against others in my age group. Hubby went to the gym with me once. He saw that I'm better than him (I was doing the workout my coach had down for the day), and since then won't go back. Whatever. I just wish he'd go to the gym!
That's sad. Dh and I don't work out together. It's apples to oranges, really, to compare a man to a woman in the gym (especially when one is a triathelete).
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RE: Competing with your spouse? - 4/27/2008 7:47:20 AM
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car2ner
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I like the soccer reference. It is great if the spouses form one team and compete against others.
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