A funny moment tonight, was over at the in-laws for their late xmas party. They had to wait a couple days for my brother in law to get in town from the Army. So we're all down in the basement, just opened gifts, and my sister-in-law asks me what my wife got me. I said "she folded my laundry", and without missing a beat, my father-in-law said "she's suppose to do that anyway". I said thank you, and he said to his daughter "do we need to have a talk?".
@37L1 I don't bitch about things my wife has said or done on here, and not say anything to her. After posting earlier, I went in the house and talked to her about it, told her I was posting on here about it. She acknowledged that i'm right, that I don't boast about the things I do around the house, and then expect recognition or reward for it. I think the natural order has been restored, but now that means I need to go to the store tomorrow to get a new toilet and install it.
She doesn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to what i'm fucking up on, just the same as I don't have much of anything to say about her. If she wants me to do more, it's because she wants to do even less. She's been complaining about running out of shows to watch on the streaming services, I watch a show here and there, but usually it's playing while i'm working, and I more listen than watch. I don't treat her poorly, I haven't tried to drown my teen daughters in the pool....yet, I don't drink, smoke, or use drugs, I don't cheat, let alone flirt with other women. When she had her surgery on her ankle in September, I did most of her tasks, plus my own, even after emergency surgery myself (gall bladder removal) less than 2 weeks after her surgery. Our girls picked up the slack on laundry, but I cleaned, cooked food, make lunches for the girls every morning for school, I took care of her helping her get to the bathroom, shower, get dressed, changing dressings and cleaning her wound up, and took her to all her appointments. Fixed her walker thing when it broke, i'm killin' it in the husbandry department when it comes to the things that really matter. I may not be a Calvin Klein model, but i'm solid husband material.
Branden
