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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it weren't for the fact that we didn't have a popcorn incident, I'd wonder if this were my husband posting. For me, it's that whenever I ask him for help for something around the house, he takes the laziest, most half-ass route to get himself just barely within some definition of having done what I asked him to do, but the reality is that I end up having to redo whatever I ask him to do because it's causing more problems than he solved. It's incredibly frustrating to feel like you have one more child, rather than a partner.

Sweeping popcorn off the steps and into the grass/mulch is exactly the kind of thing he would do to save himself the effort of getting a dustpan and putting the popcorn into the trash. Then I would end up out there cleaning it up properly so we didn't attract insects/rodent (or look like "those neighbors" with trash all over their lawn), and he'd wonder why I wasn't in the mood for sex that evening. The only difference is that I don't so thoroughly loathe him that I would say something like that in front of the kids.[/quote]

You are me.[/quote]

Me too. I would never use the word hate, or even think it, but the number of times I have asked him to do something, only to have him break more than he fixed and/or leave tools all over the floor when he's done... too many to count. I just do it myself now. He is totally missing the "clean up after yourself" gene. It's exhausting. OTOH, he got extra copies of the "likes to give long backrubs" gene, so that keeps us from going into the hate zone.  [/quote]

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