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He Misses Me
By Polly | July 9, 2007
While at home and going about our busy lives, my husband often takes the time to quietly complain about my compulsiveness. My need to have order, control, and a chaos free life he does not always appreciate. How I can’t go anywhere with dishes in the sink, how I can’t leave for vacation without the house being clean (this is a major point of contention with him), or how I take great pleasure in organizing a new cabinet or drawer. But since being on vacation since Saturday, my husband has actually admitted to missing some of these Bree like traits. Since being on vacation for the last 3 days, I have taken the fact that WE are on vacation seriously and have not made much effort at keeping the small 500 square foot cottage all 6 of us are staying in order. I am leaving dishes in the sink, letting the kids eat on the couch, and have made no effort whatsoever to sweep the sand off the floor. After all, WE are on vacation.
So today after sleeping into 9:00am (this is rare for me), I happily declared, “Aren’t you proud of me? I have totally relaxed and not made an effort to get this cottage in any kind of order. Don’t you love the mess?” Fully expecting him to hug and kiss me and echo my cheers of pride, he grumpily replied (after stepping in a pile of sand), “Yeah I guess. But I kind of miss it….” (aka “please take some time to clean up - it is now inconveniencing me”). Men!!
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