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your desktop wallpaper... does SHE care ?

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Originally posted by: CFster
No problem here - my wife isn't insecure.
I think the problem is more the fact that they don't want to see it... kinda like the fact that you don't want to see a guy in a suggestive pose when looking over at the computer everytime. Insecurity/jealousy because of someone none of us will ever even meet is ludicrous.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: CFster
No problem here - my wife isn't insecure.
I think the problem is more the fact that they don't want to see it... kinda like the fact that you don't want to see a guy in a suggestive pose when looking over at the computer everytime. Insecurity/jealousy because of someone none of us will ever even meet is ludicrous.

She could care less. I have my computer and she has hers. I wouldn't care if she had a picture of a guy up on her screen either. But she won't, because girls generally aren't like that.

 
Originally posted by: CFster
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: CFster
No problem here - my wife isn't insecure.
I think the problem is more the fact that they don't want to see it... kinda like the fact that you don't want to see a guy in a suggestive pose when looking over at the computer everytime. Insecurity/jealousy because of someone none of us will ever even meet is ludicrous.

She could care less. I have my computer and she has hers. I wouldn't care if she had a picture of a guy up on her screen either. But she won't, because girls generally aren't like that.
Maybe I should've mentioned that we "share" this 1 machine (the 20% of the time she does use it)... then you wouldn't think "insecurity" has anything to do with why she doesn't want it there when she tries to do work...

Funny I can see where she's coming from... still, the point of this thread was to see if you guys had SOs that cared too (and not for reasons of insecurity).
 
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: AnimeKnight
Here is mine current desktop

I also subscribe to some magazines 😀

My gf doesn't really care 🙂 either that or she's too tired trying to change me 😀

Personally I don't see anything wrong.. as long as you don't cheat on your gf.

AnimeKnight, you've gotta e-mail me that first pic, the one w/ the woman in the cowboy hat! 😀

i'll take both please 😀
 
Maybe if you guys are sharing the same computer - yes I can see that. I don't care to look at a naked man either. It seemed to me from your original post that it was a different computer from the one she might use, or it is used by you almost exclusively.

There are other reasons to care? This falls under the same category as glancing at other women in the mall while I'm walking with her. A lot of wives get pissed off at that sort of thing. They are afraid their husbands might find somebody else more attractive - and subconsciously think they are going to leave them, so they get pissed off. My wife could care less, and sometimes even points them out to me. She loves me more than anything and is secure in the fact that I love her just as much. She is the most unjealous person I have ever met.

 
Originally posted by: CFster
Maybe if you guys are sharing the same computer - yes I can see that. I don't care to look at a naked man either. It seemed to me from your original post that it was a different computer from the one she might use, or it is used by you almost exclusively.

There are other reasons to care? This falls under the same category as glancing at other women in the mall while I'm walking with her. A lot of wives get pissed off at that sort of thing. They are afraid their husbands might find somebody else more attractive - and subconsciously think they are going to leave them, so they get pissed off. My wife could care less, and sometimes even points them out to me. She loves me more than anything and is secure in the fact that I love her just as much. She is the most unjealous person I have ever met.

Huh. See, I am very 'unjealous' too... but you know what? My husband actually WANTS me to be jealous. Something about him liking it when I 'fight for my man'. Makes him feel good or something. All it does is annoy me.

Bah. Men! 😛
 
Originally posted by: Isla
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Isla
LOL, just wait until one of you has a girlfriend who keeps pictures of hot, semi clad guys up as her wallpaper.

Hopefully, you will be just as cool with it as you want her to be with yours.

I'm just mentioning this because my husband always enjoyed having his lovelies available to look at but when I decided I needed some eye candy too, he f-r-e-a-k-e-d. (I'm not talking wallpaper... private folders for personal viewing)

It was amusing.
Shouldn't women have already accepted the fact that guys will blatantly do this so you may as well let us? Women doing this with their desktops is just... not the norm. 😉 Kinda like the fact that women don't outright SAY they want sex while men do.

It's not like there's any special meaning behind doing it. You like to have something good to look at as a background image and well... women are beautiful... like certain cars or landscape/scenery.


Hehe... well, I wanted this ad for my wallpaper because I thought it was a beautiful ladscape! 😀

Unfortunately, 30 something moms don't get to have beefcake for wallpaper I guess. 🙁 My oldest (daughter) thought it was totally awesome but my youngest (a son) was like, YUCK! Now, the interesting thing is this same son, who is only 4 years old, brought a Victoria's Secret catalog to me from out of the trash and told me I shouldn't throw it away because it wasn't broken.

I can't win!

😛

Isla, you have to stop using my pic as your wall-paper 😉, and welcome back!!! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: brtspears2
I think my woman is more jelous that computer gets more attention than her at some times.

But if she had interchangeable parts, i'd spend more time with her alright.

Haha..sometimes that bothers me too. I mean....we'd be sitting around watching tv...and during a commercial or something he'd just get up and go in his room to mess with his computer. He's usually posting on here..or chatting on AIM. He's ALWAYS on his computer, even when he first wakes up in the morning. He loves his computer too much...

I really don't think it's too much to ask to just SIT still with me for an hour or two w/o running back to his computer every other second!!
 
Hiya Mucman!

How could I stay away from a place where there are fellow Rush fans? 🙂

It's nice to be among friends. 🙂
 

This is kind of not the same but I have a fair number of friends that are girls, and this girl I've been going out with asked me if I was willing to "give them all up" for her. I kind of went "ugh, don't you think that's kind of possessive" and she more or less dropped the issue.


 
Originally posted by: nativesunshine


Haha..sometimes that bothers me too. I mean....we'd be sitting around watching tv...and during a commercial or something he'd just get up and go in his room to mess with his computer. He's usually posting on here..or chatting on AIM. He's ALWAYS on his computer, even when he first wakes up in the morning. He loves his computer too much...

I really don't think it's too much to ask to just SIT still with me for an hour or two w/o running back to his computer every other second!!

Come sit with me, I'll give you all the attention you want. :Q
 
Originally posted by: nativesunshine
Originally posted by: brtspears2
I think my woman is more jelous that computer gets more attention than her at some times.

But if she had interchangeable parts, i'd spend more time with her alright.

Haha..sometimes that bothers me too. I mean....we'd be sitting around watching tv...and during a commercial or something he'd just get up and go in his room to mess with his computer. He's usually posting on here..or chatting on AIM. He's ALWAYS on his computer, even when he first wakes up in the morning. He loves his computer too much...

I really don't think it's too much to ask to just SIT still with me for an hour or two w/o running back to his computer every other second!!
Umm... honey, is that you?

Don't be playing with me like that.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: nativesunshine
Originally posted by: brtspears2
I think my woman is more jelous that computer gets more attention than her at some times.

But if she had interchangeable parts, i'd spend more time with her alright.

Haha..sometimes that bothers me too. I mean....we'd be sitting around watching tv...and during a commercial or something he'd just get up and go in his room to mess with his computer. He's usually posting on here..or chatting on AIM. He's ALWAYS on his computer, even when he first wakes up in the morning. He loves his computer too much...

I really don't think it's too much to ask to just SIT still with me for an hour or two w/o running back to his computer every other second!!
Umm... honey, is that you?

Don't be playing with me like that.

Huh? What?

Are you trying to tell me that my guy isn't the ONLY one who does that?? Mann...sucks for us girls.
 
One time my buddies put that pic of the Brazillian Women's Soccer team posing for playboy in the rain as my desktop on my living room PC, and I sure heard about that. Time to plot some vengeance.
 
No problem here... I have a nice Lady on my desktop and my significant other has a sexy hunk on hers "What you can do, I can do too"
 
My desktop has 5 Kylie Monogue's on it, she's simply beautiful, wife doesn't care since they're not nude and she's an Aussie.
 
As long as he doesn't print up their pics and attach them to a paper bag to put over my head at bedtime it's none of my business what he reads or uses as his desktop🙂
 
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
As long as he doesn't print up their pics and attach them to a paper bag to put over my head at bedtime it's none of my business what he reads or uses as his desktop🙂

LMAO! 😀
 
Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: Squisher
I"ve got Anna K. on both of my desktops.

It usually gets me a sock in the arm everytime the wife walks by.


Funny, normally I have AT opened up on the left and TV opened up in the upper right so her boob is sticking out in the lower right.

completely unintentional, I'm sure 😛

Nate

With PICS
 
Originally posted by: Isla
LOL, just wait until one of you has a girlfriend who keeps pictures of hot, semi clad guys up as her wallpaper.

Hopefully, you will be just as cool with it as you want her to be with yours.

I was. It's just a picture. Like somebody else said, as long as she's not printing it out and asking me to wear it, everything's cool 😛.

Squisher - I was just trying to make a joke 😀 Thanks for the pics anyway.

Nate
 
My wife doesn't care because I don't use any wallpaper. Why bother having my computer load some picture that I'll never look at anyhow.
On the other hand seeing as my Asus bios displays a picture when it boots anyhow, I put a picture of our cats on there.
 
Originally posted by: mchammer187
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: AnimeKnight
Here is mine current desktop

I also subscribe to some magazines 😀

My gf doesn't really care 🙂 either that or she's too tired trying to change me 😀

Personally I don't see anything wrong.. as long as you don't cheat on your gf.

AnimeKnight, you've gotta e-mail me that first pic, the one w/ the woman in the cowboy hat! 😀

i'll take both please 😀

You both got email 😀
 
Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: Squisher
I"ve got Anna K. on both of my desktops.

It usually gets me a sock in the arm everytime the wife walks by.


Funny, normally I have AT opened up on the left and TV opened up in the upper right so her boob is sticking out in the lower right.

completely unintentional, I'm sure 😛

Nate

With PICS

Squisher you think you could hook me up with your desktop



😀
 
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