I was talking to my best friend on the phone last week. She was fuming at her husband. She was knee-deep with a tantruming child at the doctor’s office and when he didn’t do a single thing to help her, his excuse was (yes, it’s an excuse), “You are so much better at that stuff so I just thought I’d stay out of the way.”
And when my sister decided to go back to school after staying home with her three kids, she began rage cleaning at night after studying. Instead of helping out with the household chores because she was in school eight hours a day working on her master’s degree, her husband said that she was just going to have to accept that the house was going to be messy because she did a better job, and he was better off staying out of the way.
I’ve seen it time and time again
Moms are drowning
They want their significant other to help and they want to feel like their partners want to lighten the load for them whether they know how to do something right or not.
Get up and do what needs to be done — whether you do it on your own or with your partner. And if you don't know how to do something, figure it out. Moms do it many times over on any given day, so it shouldn’t be too hard for you.
