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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]on the topic of having to do everything:  I am recently divorced from someone who didn’t pull his weight (one of many reasons for divorce).  kids were at ex-DHs this weekend, and I noticed the dryer was not properly attached to the vent. in the old days I would have asked DH to do something... about 85 times over 6 weeks, while getting nervous we would cause a fire using the dryer, and eventually getting it fixed myself.  Since I no longer have a DH, this weekend I pulled out the dryer, took a picture, decided it didnt look like rocket science (it just needed a little extension to the vent).  Went to hardware store, asked for help, got the extension piece and tape, and fixed it myself - probably 1.5 hours total (I live close to a hardware store :-).  and it was SO satisfying, and so much less stressful and annoying, because I just know I have to do everything and in fact it works better that way than trying to parse things out to exDH that I thought he might be willing to do, then nagging, etc.  This wouldn’t work if he didn’t have regular (40%) time with the kids, but honestly it isnt so bad to do it all myself now that I have time.[/quote]

This is what I tell people when they say "you'll be doing it all anyway".

It's not even remotely the same, and I love my peaceful life.

- Single mom[/quote]

+1. A recently separated friend of mine referred to it as “addition through subtraction.” Every task is just easier not that she doesn’t have to navigate her husband. [/quote]

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