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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I was ready to chime in and commiserate until I read about food on the couch. At my house, that's totally the kind of BS I would pull because I'm the slovenly one. I knew my husband wasn't the type of person who gets lots of stuff done quickly. Not sure how to explain that, but when you see guys who have made coffee, gone to Home Depot, washed the car and are out working in the yard by 9am, that's not my husband. I knew what I was getting.

At our house, I am the laid back wife because my husband does all the day to day stuff that keeps our lives running. Because of him we have groceries to eat, clean clothes to wear, lawn is mowed, bills are paid, car is registered and always full of gas, dishes get washed, floors and counters are clean, sheets and towels get changed on a schedule, etc. His part of running our household is all the regular recurring things. No deadlines per say, but also the work never ends.

I am in charge of any "special projects". I planned our wedding, plan vacations, register us for baby classes and day care tours. I plan activities that require tickets or inviting people over. I do Christmas cards and Dr appts and dinner reservations - basically anything that needs to be done once and by a certain date. Sometimes I need help with these tasks or it is big enough that I give him one thing to take care of to be involved. I didn't have a rehearsal dinner venue until 2 weeks before our wedding. I left on my 3 week honeymoon without confirmation that we had hotels for the last 4 nights and I'm having a baby in 8 weeks and still don't have a baby monitor or car seat install check appointment. He's a lucky guy, things always get done in time, but sometimes it makes me nervous waiting. With the exception of getting the car seat check, I just rely on natural consequences. He didn't buy a new grill for 5 weeks after we discovered the one we had was unusable. It's his friends we haven't had over.

Basically - If it's not endangering anyone's safety and it's not costing us money, I let it go. I guarantee I will not have a video monitor set up before the baby comes and likely not until the afternoon of the day we agree to move the baby out of the bassinet and into his crib. Thankfully I know my husband well and I have a cheap audio monitor in the closet ready for the inevitable. [/quote]

I agree.  My husband does ZERO of the things you listed your husband does.

You're not laid back, you're lazy and you take advantage of your husband.[/quote][/quote]

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