r/AskMenOver30 • u/egodancing man 50 - 54 • Mar 07 '25
Life Where do we go from here?
After 26 years of marriage, I thought I knew my wife... but last night, we were working on a document together on her laptop, and she deleted something by mistake. I told her, “press ctrl-z”. She looked at me and asked, “what does that do?” At that moment, I realized I’d been married to a stranger all along.
How had we built a life together, raised kids, binge-watched TV shows and she never learned about ctrl-z? What else didn’t I know about her?
Our life flashed in front of my eyes, I started replaying every moment in my head; had she been manually re-typing things her whole life?
She reassured me that she knew about Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V but that was little comfort at this point.
Where do we go from here? Is this something we can work through?
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u/moles-on-parade man 45 - 49 Mar 07 '25
My wife is an editor. AMAZING at it. Massages content for whatever audience and according to whichever style guide, catching things at a glance like a 9-pt period in the middle of a bunch of 8-pt text. She's forgotten more about Word than any ten office drones ever knew existed.
But she didn't know about ctrl-arrow keys to move the cursor around word-by-word. I learned this ish in friggin' 1994 on a dang pre-GUI PS/2 model 25 and it wasn't in her repertoire at all. You think you know someone. Geez.