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[quote=Anonymous]My DH has chronic back pain.  I already do the majority of the work at home.  I do all drop offs for our child (age 4).  I do pick up 3x per week, and usually take our child to a play group or activity, so if I pick up at 6, we do not come home until 7 or 7:30.  My DH is in charge of cooking or otherwise procuring dinner but does not cook nightly - sometimes it is leftovers and sometimes we order out, and sometimes we forage on our own.  Regardless of whether he cooks, I do all the dishes, as well as laundry (mine and DC's) and general default parent activities and running the house.  DH is in charge of putting DS in the shower and getting him out and drying him off.  I do books and bedtime.

Yesterday, I picked up DC at 6, took him to an activity until 7:30 and came home.  DH didn't cook, and that was fine bc I had made some food ahead of time over the weekend.  DH put DS in the shower and got him out.  That was the totality of his household contribution yesterday.

Today he tells me that I don't have enough regard for him when he is in pain.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here.  Is it really my fate that when his back acts up (often) he can do nothing at all?

How do people manage when their spouse has chronic pain and cannot do their share?  
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