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-- I just came home to a sink full of dishes and messy counters, including the egg shells you used this morning but couldn't be bothered to dispose in the trash bin that's five feet away. After I spend 30 minutes cleaning and loading, you walk downstairs, take one look at complain that the two pots on the drying rack haven't yet been put away.
Do you want a medal for cleaning your own house up and contributing?
-- When, on Saturday, I realize the kids haven't yet had dinner, you criticize me for making them Mac and Cheese again (even though this is what they wanted and I was taking the path of easiest resistance so I could get them to the tub and in bed before 8 p.m.)
Why hadn't YOU fed them dinner yet?  Oh, I get it, you're "helping."
-- When I have to go to the office early one day, you get angry that I'm not making their lunches for school, even though I make their lunches for school every day. What's worse is your anger is related to me by our oldest child. "Mom gets angry when you go to work early."
Does your wife work?
-- Laundry. Yes, laundry. Laundry is your domain now after the lecture I received about not separating by color (rather than by darks and whites, which is how I was taught -- I've been doing laundry for 30 years). I especially loved the screed and threat to go on a shopping binge after I inadvertently ruined dd's dress because I am unfamiliar with how little girl garments should be washed. Never mind the fact that I noticed DD was nearly out of clothes and so took it upon myself to wash them. You didn't notice that, did you? But you did notice how "wrong" I did it. 
So you did your daughter's laundry.  Wow.  That's amazing.
-- You literally said "you missed a spot" last week after I cleaned both bathrooms for the second time this month. I nearly busted out laughing.
Do you use the bathrooms?  Then you should also clean them.
-- And, last weekend, when I took the kids out by myself both days as usual, I was appalled that you criticized me for taking them to Chuck E. Cheese after. Maybe you missed the part about how they both hiked the Billy Goats Trail? Tell me, what did YOU do those days?
OK, I agree on this one.
-- And, my personal favorite, getting yelled at for allowing them to watch TV for two hours on Sunday after they awoke at 6 a.m. because of the time change. The kids are 7 and 5 now... I can count on two hands the number of times you've gotten up with them in the morning. I don't need the sleep -- I'm a morning person after all -- but I'd be more than happy for you to get up and engage them in a more fulfilling activity so I can do something like, I don't know, go for a run or something. 
OK, I agree on this one too.
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Yeah, but if your spouse is doing his share, you don't complain about how he does it, you should just appreciate the fact that he does it. My husband can fold laundry any way he wants to, no matter how dumb or ridiculous it looks...

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