OMG i so relate! sometimes i feel like a little kid when we're having dinner at night and i sit and list accomplishments to dave: i did five loads of laundry! i dusted the kids' room! we walked 11 blocks! i put away your socks! sometimes validation is a nasty little bug in our ear, isn't it? for the record, you can always take a pic of all your completed laundry and send it to me. i will totally appreciate it.
I can also relate. I feel like I need to show/tell Mike what we accomplished each day. Maybe we shouldn't, huh? Sometimes that is all I have to talk about, though. Should we make up little stories instead? That would be fun!
I think you may be onto something. However I still find it fascinating that a woman can clean an entire house and the man will only notice when given cues. Kinda like this morning when my hubby thought we were out of soda. "I have the last cans at work. Saw the empty box this morning, do we need more?" I kindly reminded him that no, we have another box. The box he's referring to has been sitting on the kitchen floor (empty) for about 3 weeks and I decided I was tired of looking at it, so kicked it out to the living room to be cut up for recycling. He had NOT a clue...
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OMG i so relate! sometimes i feel like a little kid when we're having dinner at night and i sit and list accomplishments to dave: i did five loads of laundry! i dusted the kids' room! we walked 11 blocks! i put away your socks!
sometimes validation is a nasty little bug in our ear, isn't it? for the record, you can always take a pic of all your completed laundry and send it to me. i will totally appreciate it.
I can also relate. I feel like I need to show/tell Mike what we accomplished each day. Maybe we shouldn't, huh? Sometimes that is all I have to talk about, though. Should we make up little stories instead? That would be fun!
I think you may be onto something. However I still find it fascinating that a woman can clean an entire house and the man will only notice when given cues. Kinda like this morning when my hubby thought we were out of soda. "I have the last cans at work. Saw the empty box this morning, do we need more?" I kindly reminded him that no, we have another box. The box he's referring to has been sitting on the kitchen floor (empty) for about 3 weeks and I decided I was tired of looking at it, so kicked it out to the living room to be cut up for recycling. He had NOT a clue...
I think Jill has a perfect solution. Next week, we are making up stories! Thanks for the idea! :)
Where did we learn this stuff? Maybe it's been ingrained since the beginning - starting with "What did you do in school today?" I'd buy that.
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