{"id":6517,"date":"2016-08-10T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2016-08-10T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:09:56","slug":"stapleton-dad-starts-annoy-your-spouse-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6517","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Dad Starts \u201cAnnoy Your Spouse Challenge\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"annoy<\/a>The trendy new \u2018challenge\u2019 making its way through Facebook is the \u201cLove Your Spouse challenge.\u201d The basic concept is that the challenge will help couples celebrate their love by posting seven days\u2019 worth of joyful photos of their wonderful marriage on Facebook. After being tagged in the spouse challenge, the person tagged can then nominate others for the 7-day challenge. Many people find the challenge to be a good reminder of their love for their spouse, but others find the concept a little nauseating, like Stapleton resident Chad Murphy. \u201cPeople already do cheesy crap by posting things like, \u2018happy birthday to the greatest wife ever,\u2019\u201d said Murphy. \u201cWell, you live with her. Maybe give her a card instead of posting it on Facebook.\u201d Murphy despises all sentimental thoughts couples share with each other through their computers. \u201cPeople are always going over the top about being married to the best wife ever, best mom ever, best dad ever, and so on. Save something for their documentary, or maybe send them a private note letting them know you appreciate how fantastic they are. It\u2019s just really, really showy when people publicly proclaim their love for a significant other.\u201d\n\nAlthough Murphy was tagged in the Love Your Spouse Challenge, he declined to participate. He did, however, start his own challenge. \u201cI decided I wanted to make a challenge more realistic and relatable,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cA lot of people love their spouse, but no one wants to hear about that. Marriage and relationships are really hard, and people want to know we are all in this together. So, let\u2019s share the things that annoy us about our spouse, and we can all feel good about our relationships instead of wondering, \u2018does Shelly love Tom more than Kelly loves me?\u2019\u201d On the first day, Murphy posted a picture of the indoor garbage bin open with a full garbage bag, which he exclaimed, \u201cis her way of letting me know, \u2018this is full, but you need to be the one to tie it up, take it out, and put in a new bag.\u2019\u201d The second day he posted a picture of an empty gas tank with the caption, \u201canytime we are taking her car somewhere, that\u2019s when she needs to get gas. Can\u2019t she run errands without all of us in the car?\u201d The third day he posted a snip of the daily weather forecast saying, \u201cshe always asks me if what she is wearing is weather-appropriate, as if I either won\u2019t let her go outside to check the weather, or she is unable to use the internet to get the forecast.\u201d As of this publication, Murphy was only through day three, but said seven days wouldn\u2019t be a problem.\nWhen Murphy\u2019s wife Kelly found out about the challenge and her husband\u2019s posts, she jumped in on the challenge as well. On Kelly\u2019s first day, she posted a photo of the sink Murphy uses with toothpaste and facial hair in it, commenting, \u201cIs it really that hard to rinse out a sink after you use it?\u201d Kelly and Chad are having fun with the challenge and say that it will actually bring them closer together. \u201cHumor is what got us into this thing in the first place,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cWe have been through a lot, and I doubt a few reminders of the things we already know annoy each other will hurt us. In fact, who knows, maybe one of us will make one of these small changes.\u201d I wouldn\u2019t count on it. But remember, we\u2019re all in this together.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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