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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. You don't exactly sound like a nice person yourself.  I mean, from the first sentence I could tell you were one of "those" women.

Do you also nag and micromanage? Are you big on telling him not only what to do but how to do it?[/quote]

I did not tell him a thing how to do this GS cookie situation.  He totally ran with it.

Here we are.  [/quote]

Yep, that's life. My spouse is the same way.  You'd think he'd learn a lesson by now and pay more attention to things, but no. Not with home or family or property stuff.  He has a lame excuse for everything and never talks about his mistakes. ANd thus never prevents them from happening again.

Meanwhile, he continues to have no organizational system for anything (wallet, keys, taxes, paperwork) and half the time he does anything he has to repeat it because he missed something.  For example, went down to the XYZ office with what they needed (Oops, didn't see one thing they needed! REDO); takes child to get cast on and doesn't have wallet with health card or Credit card (Oops, let's go home and back again and spend all day here); loses his XYZ for a 5th time and buys another one (I think we're up to $1200 on the same $200 pair of Raybans!). So on and so forth.

Half assing it.  I just hope he doesn't learn something very important the hard way - like a child's safety or health thing.

Personally, I think his parents groomed him this way (Just study sweetie, that's all you have to do) and that he has ADD, just like his brother. [/quote]

I don't know.  It seems like he pays for it every time he makes a mistake like that.  If that isn't enough to get him to stop making those kinds of mistakes then maybe there is an element to the behavior that is simply out of his control.  Why continue to set himself up like that?  I would feel bad for him and I would try to help him make up a check list (or something) that he could think through before he goes on one of these errands.

It sounds almost like some sort of learning disability?  I have less sympathy for the Op's dh because that was just so totally goofed up.  20 boxes of cookies misdelivered or not delivered is a big problem.  And then to not even attempt to rectify it?  No.  Even if it means him going back door to door to figure out who he missed he should have done that.  Then next year Op can handle the cookie sales![/quote]

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