my husband prefers his computer to me (1993)

2026-01-04 #memories

Discovered in a box in my dad’s garage, a clipping from the September 1993 issue of Parents magazine, titled “My husband prefers his computer to me”.

Photo of a clipping from the 1993 issue of Parent’s magazine, with a photo of a man typing on a computer while a woman’s hand touches his shoulder.

Q: What’s wrong with my husband? Several months ago he purchased a home computer. Now he’s married to it! When he comes home from work, he goes right to the computer; at night, when I am eager to make love, he’s still with his computer. When I complain that the computer is more important to him than family life, we end up fighting. I have tried, in an effort to bring us closer together, to make the computer a family project, but my husband won’t let me or the children touch it. At this point I think the only solution is to sell the darn machine so that we can get our lives back to normal.

I’ll never know for sure, but I’m almost certain my mom put it on the refrigerator to tease my dad. That was her sense of humor.