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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are some tips on keeping yourself sane:

1. Remember that applying for jobs is stressful and draining. Both because it is unpleasant to be unemployed, and because the actual process of filling out a job application is nauseating. He needs some downtime to relax, just like a gainfully employed person does.

2. Try to remember that it is easy to underestimate how long some of the things he is doing actually take. As one example, I am convinced that my wife thinks "Hey can you fix that rocker?" involves me carrying the rocker to the basement, banging a screwdriver against it for five minutes, and then taking it back upstairs. Actually, it involves carrying the rocker, disassembling it, searching for the correct tools, discovering that one of the washers is broken, driving to the hardware store and rooting through bins for the correct washer, buying it, bringing it home, re-assembling the rocker, carrying it back upstairs, cleaning up the tools, and then washing the shirt that I accidentally stained with oil. To be clear, I am not suggesting he's a martyr or anything, just that this perspective might make it somewhat easier for you to swallow if he later doesn't start the dishwasher.[/quote]

Oh, don't forget scraping off the dried-on baby barf that is somehow in the joints of every piece of disassembled furniture.[/quote]

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