The Husband On Strike

“My goal is to also send a message to wives everywhere that:’Husbands have feeling too’.” — James Wilson
I’ve been reading, watching, and hearing the news about the husband who’s on strike. He’s doing this because his wife still allows their 2 year-old and 3 month-old kids to sleep in the marital bed and it’s causing, in his view, intimacy issues. She disagrees, of course. So to grab her attention he’s staying on the roof and blogging about the whole thing. My new favorite blog. MC Hammer is #2 now. Nice! A lot of people are chiming in with their comments and advice. Overall, the anonymous seems to be a little more harsh than the faces. But! Hey, I will have to cosign with the husband as well (big whoop right?). If the wife can’t see that the situation is detrimental to their relationship and is going to let her husband sleep on the roof when she can put the kids in beds, then I don’t think she’s really listening to her husband’s needs. He’s not saying “forget the kids”. He just wants that space to be their space. And what’s wrong with that? Seriously, marriage is becoming less and less attractive to me. Except for the tax benefits. And if I have kids, then okay. But if I never do, even better.

From the alphabet network:

March 29, 2006 — James Wilson has been camping out on the roof of his home and calling himself “not only the CEO and director of the National Association of Desperate Husbands,” but “also a card-carrying member.”

So what will it take to get the 33-year-old independent marketing consultant from Redford, Mich., to come back down?

“Well, it is going to take for my wife to finally give in and remove the children from our bedroom, put them in their rightful places, in their own bedroom,” he said.

James Wilson and his wife, Valentina, have a 3-month-old daughter, Jayla, and a 2-year-old son, James III. Valentina Wilson says the children will remain sleeping in the marital bed for now.

“Wait until my daughter gets older and he can get the bedroom back to just us,” she said.

James Wilson, who has been chronicling his woes on his website www.husbandonstrike.com, says the children are causing an intimacy issue, but his wife says that’s not the case.

“We get all the intimacy we need, you know,” Valentina Wilson said.

Valentina Wilson said she was prepared to let James stay up on the roof because she was confident that he would return home on his own.

“I think he will come around,” she said. “It will get cold up there. He will miss us and will get hungry. He will come back home.”

Her husband said that he chose the roof as his place for protest instead of simply hanging out at a friend’s house because he wanted to grab his wife’s attention.

“I just decided I didn’t want to protest using any normal striking method,” he said. “I wanted to be as unique as possible.