I didn’t know how inflexible my ex was until we moved in together. Everything had to be her way. She was right, anything else was wrong. One day we were painting rooms in our house. We both had a roller and some brushes. I was working on the living room, she was working on a bedroom. Some time passes and I’d finished a 5m long wall using a roller for most of it and a brush for the edges. I decided to take a break and check on her. She’d painted 10% of a wall. A small corner. Maybe she’d only just started? No, she was using a 2" brush and treating every inch like it was fine art. I remember the gist of the conversation that followed but some comments stuck in my mind. I asked why she wasn’t using the roller and said it’ll take forever doing it like that. She said you have to use brushes for the best finish and was incredulous that I used a roller. “You’re only meant to use them on ceilings. That’s so lazy, seriously.” I said it isn’t, everybody does it, but she just told me to use brushes and said “I’m not living in a shitty looking house!” I told her it won’t look shit, it’ll be smoother, and she should take a look. She said “I know what I’m doing. We’ll see what looks better when we’re finished.” A few hours later, we had a smooth first coat on the living room walls and most of a bedroom wall covered in brush marks. I did almost all the painting because she took so long. submitted by /u/ThrowawayTrainTAC
Originally posted by u/ThrowawayTrainTAC on r/AskMen