My friend, that is a funny story, but your wife’s phobia is now impacting not only her but all your lives.
For me, that’s the crossover into “need to talk to someone” territory.
Spiders are also … good. Like, of all the bugs in your house, they’re maybe the one you want to cohabitate with the most since they help keep all the others away.
I appreciate your concern, but I confess this story is an amalgam of several humorous events. My son did jump out of the shower over a cobweb one time, and my wife did pull down the shower curtain rod to use as a weapon another time (one of those tension rods that comes down easily). And my daughter did plead with us once not to harm a spider “because it might have babies,” but she didn’t want to live with the spider, so she suggested we move out and let the spider and her babies have our home.
It didn’t all happen today, I just thought that was a clever lie to tie it all together.
Each of these events was met with as much amusement as fear. The kids also garden, and they aren’t afraid of bugs, worms, or spiders in the wild. It’s just when they get in the house that they panic, and I suspect it is as much about recreating funny memories as it is actual fear.
I’m going to add that even though they absolutely freak me the fuck out, since the house centipedes have been visiting, literally no other bugs exist in my home, even spiders.
The scuttling is a nightmare but considering the good they’ve done we have an arrangement now.
My friend, that is a funny story, but your wife’s phobia is now impacting not only her but all your lives.
For me, that’s the crossover into “need to talk to someone” territory.
Spiders are also … good. Like, of all the bugs in your house, they’re maybe the one you want to cohabitate with the most since they help keep all the others away.
I appreciate your concern, but I confess this story is an amalgam of several humorous events. My son did jump out of the shower over a cobweb one time, and my wife did pull down the shower curtain rod to use as a weapon another time (one of those tension rods that comes down easily). And my daughter did plead with us once not to harm a spider “because it might have babies,” but she didn’t want to live with the spider, so she suggested we move out and let the spider and her babies have our home.
It didn’t all happen today, I just thought that was a clever lie to tie it all together.
Each of these events was met with as much amusement as fear. The kids also garden, and they aren’t afraid of bugs, worms, or spiders in the wild. It’s just when they get in the house that they panic, and I suspect it is as much about recreating funny memories as it is actual fear.
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I’m lucky in that for my wife it’s worms/snakes, which we encounter in the house fairly infrequently. 🤣
Fair enough! Well told story, I got invested!
Concur. I don’t like cobwebs either, but that sounds like enough fear to really hold ya back from being able to enjoy every day life.
I’m going to add that even though they absolutely freak me the fuck out, since the house centipedes have been visiting, literally no other bugs exist in my home, even spiders.
The scuttling is a nightmare but considering the good they’ve done we have an arrangement now.