6 Things Your Wife Says to You that She Might Not Actually Mean

3. “I’m/it’s fine.”

This simple, short word seems so innocent and finite, but it’s really hiding a whole collection of verbal weaponry and assumptions.  When we say we are “fine” (or “okay”), what we are really saying is, “You obviously can’t read my body language, and I am mad about it.  In fact, I am pretty much the opposite of fine, so now, because you couldn’t see that, I am going to make you suffer in my silent treatment until you can figure out what is really wrong here.”  We might also mean, “I just don’t really want to talk to you right now, so I’m shutting this conversation down with the most generic and husband-approved word I can think of.”  Yes, husbands, “fine” can be a much more complicated response than it seems, and we’re sorry!  Ladies, let’s think of a better response than “fine” next time…unless we are telling him that he’s “lookin’ fine”.  I think our husbands would love that!

This next statement put’s husbands in a “no-win zone”…