I've been a member of this board, as well as a few others, and I find myself needing a bit of help.

I bought an Superblack Roadster in October, impulse buy, without my wife. She's been a little ever since. She "jokingly" makes comments about doing damage to my "baby" which I "love" more than her. Does anyone have some ideas as to how to handle this ?
Thanks for your help.

 

Buy one for her too.

 

Lol, funny story, I kinda did the same thing, but my wife was okay with it. She was there when I bought it. She didn't know until the day of.

Have you let her drive it yet, with the top down?

You might just have 2 choices:

1. Your wife
2. The roadster



I would go with uhhhhh choice #2, but hey thats just me.

 

Well that's just the thing. . . I've offered to get her one, there's a sweet White 280 4-Sale that I've been lookin at for the past month. Figured that the His & Hers thing might do the trick. Everytime I mention that - she just goes into mode.
Trying to tell me that people think I'm nutz for buying the 350 WTF!!!!
We'll see how this year goes, maybe I'll get her a G35

 

Tell her to quit bringin up the past and move on. I mean doesn't she like drivin/ridin in the dang car.

My wife begs to drive my car. She has driven it 2 times in 7 months,

 

My girlfriend was the same way, mostly because all my ******* friends egged her on sayin that so many girls are gonna want me now, can you deal with the competition. All I got was bitching an moaning. Took her on a long drive top down she loves it now. She hates the idea that I have it, but loves it. She loves the attention she gets in the car but hates that I get it from girls, Go figure who cares. Her dad is ettin one now and guess who is moaning, her mom she says he is having a mid life crisis. Who cares how old you are if you wanna have fun in a nice car. Anyways take her for a nice ride on a scenis route top down, if she don't love it check your wife's warranty she may be deffective.

 

It's evident that the people commenting about how your wife should just deal with it or if you have to make a decision between the Z or your wife, you should chose the Z, either has never married or if they are married they need some time to grow up. A purchase of a car, especially something like the Z should have been discussed prior to you going out and looking for a car. Hey, I've been married for 25 years and I would have never just gone out and bought a Z without my wifey at my side. She should be your soul mate and your "partner" for life! Isn't that why you got married?? Everyone can flame me all you want, but I'm just telling you how life REALLY is! You could have avoided the if you had just "talked" to her first. Girlfriends are another matter ..... they're not your soul mate just yet. Now because of your selfishness, you have to pay the price. Good luck between you and your wife and I hope you can settle it before it gets out of hand.

 

"A purchase of a car, especially something like the Z should have been discussed prior to you going out and looking for a car. Hey, I've been married for 25 years and I would have never just gone out and bought a Z without my wifey at my side."

I'm not gonna flame u, because i totally agree! If I had intended on buying the Z the night I did, I would have taken her with me. Like I said earlier it was a rather impulsive purchase on my part. She likes to ride around in the Z and doesn't like to drive it, I think she's scared of the thing myself. I've enjoyed the answers that I have gotten so far - read them to her out loud every time I see a new post!
We've been married for 10 years and this is just another one of those "learning" things that must be worked out.

 

Yeah dude, buying a *CAR* and not a cheap one without Wifey's input is not a good thing. I mean, unless you're rolling in cash and don't give a crap about the money in which case she should lighten up but that's probably not the case.

How would you like it if she came home with a $20K Ring on her finger because she fell in love with it. Yeah, it's much less practical than the car (you can't really use the ring) but it illustrates my point.

You wanna make her happy? Take a week off and plan a nice long road trip with her in the Roadster. You might want to plan it for the summer, though. :b

 

Sounds like your "Sweetie" is jealous of the new car. Obviously you must be paying way more attention to your new baby as opposed to the wife. You're gonna have to work to get out of this rut, but once the car is older and the Z honeymoon is over a bit, things should settle down. However, if you happen to get a ticket or have some other problem with the new car, you're going to hear lots of "I told you so". THAT wont be pleasant.

Our new Z Roadster is "technically" hers. I just "steal" it all the time. I sowed the seeds months in advance. "Hey Sweetie, I think you would look great in a little two seat roadster convertible. Let's go to some of the dealers and check em out". If I had said I wanted a Roadster....forget about it.

Good luck.

 

Buy her the biggest pair of diamond solitaire earrings you can afford. You'll be set...I've never met a women who didn't want a pair... or a bigger pair.

This has nothing to do with plastic surgery, either. Unless of course, she wants a bigger pair of those instead.

 

My ***** aren't big enough to make that big of an impulse buy with or without the wife. I really had to have a new car and let her know way ahead of time what I was getting. From her point of view I think she was worried I was having a mid-life crisis and the attention from women the car might draw. Last time having a car helped me get a chick I was 16. I have just been paying her more attention and doing more things for her as I think the car just makes her feel threatened.
We were in bed having fun and I was becoming more "vocal" and she says "You're not thinking about your car are you?"
That was a good one.