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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does he say when you ask him to wake up with the kids, to figure out dinner that night, to take the kids to an appointment, etc.?[/quote]

He claims to not hear them wake up. If I didn’t cook dinner, he’d get takeout, he definitely wouldn’t cook. Or like I could never ask him to start dinner except maybe I could convince him to preheat the oven for me or pull something out to thaw. I could tell him to take them to an appointment or an activity occasionally, but probably could not rely on him for regular help, particularly if it required him to alter the schedule of his work day (which my DD’s dance definitely does). But 3 days on Tuesday our busiest activity night, I asked him to empty the dishwasher and trash and also put away a shipment of toilet paper we’d gotten days prior. I can home and none of it was done. In fact none of it is still done (though I caved and emptied the trash because it was so full.[/quote]

NP - on trash. This is a great one to delegate out to the man child husband. When he doesn’t take it out and doesn’t remember to take it to the curb DO NOT step in and do it.

Just let that rot and pile up. Notice it, acknowledge it, say it and do not step in.

This is one of the few things where the natural consequence over about 3 years finally led to some consistent trash taking out. It will be humiliating for him. If a neighbor comments just chirp “yup! That’s my husbands job!” We all get the full depth of that message immediately 😂[/quote]

NP.  I'm laughing out loud.  Three years?!  My husband is the lazy trash taker outer, but i gave in and picked up the slack because I was tired of the smell.  Tired of the dog getting the trash when it overflows.  Tired of ants.  Tired of looking at the can at the end of the driveway on Friday when trash day was Tuesday.   Still the recycling continues to pile up...earlier I was balancing an empty seltzer can on top of a huge pile of amazon boxes (boxes that I had to break down, obviously).[/quote]

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