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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH is the same way. It gets old.

I’ve started looking into hiring a handyman- we can afford it. I don’t plan to check with DH first- I know once the work is done (if he even notices) he will be glad. He just wont ever take the initiative.  [/quote]

Or - do tell him in advance and watch him handle everything that week.  DH is not useless like some of the guys mentioned on this thread, but when we first moved into our house there were so many things to do and he just kept saying "I can do that" and then . . . not doing any of them.  So I made a punch list and asked him to put anything I missed on it and he said "what is this for" (probably ready to be offended that I would make him a chore list) and I told him a friend in the neighborhood had a good handyman, but I wanted to be sure if I was going to call him I didn't accidentally leave off something from the list.  "What??  I can do all of this!"  "I know, but you're really busy and it's bugging me.  This way it all gets done at once."  He woke up early the next day and started punching it out.

I don't consider this manipulative because I would have cheerfully paid the handyman and not held it against DH.  I just wanted it done.  And he was right, he could do it all.  He just didn't have any particular timeline in mind when he announced that about each task.[/quote]

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