Does your husband have to remove a driveway-full of bikes before he can park his car? Is he a neat freak who comes home to Mount Fold-me on the couch every day?
Today’s focus is to remove one stressor from his life. Figure out what makes him feel a tiny sense of defeat each day and plan to remove it.
Prayer for Today
Dear God, let me do these things, not to be noticed, but so my husband will feel loved and honored, even in the little things.
Getting Creative
- Does the sound of Cartoon Network blaring when he gets home drive your guy nuts? Maybe some Mozart (or Creedence Clearwater Revival) would be a better sound to greet him with.
- Does your he-man need to wade through piles of make-up and “product” just to brush his teeth? Time to declare some man territory in the bathroom. Put your stuff in baskets or on shelves so he has clear access to all his gear.
- Where’s his favorite spot in the house? If it’s the chair by the TV, make sure the remote is handy and his news magazine is at hand.
Your Project:
Remove some little annoyance from his life.
As in most households, the laundry never ends around here. On average, I think I do about 10 loads per week. With a baby on the way, it can only mean even more loads of laundry. I am very good at getting it done and folding it. However, moving the folded laundry out of the basket and into the drawers is my least favorite chore. My husband complains that he can never find his clean clothes, especially socks, as they are residing somewhere in the bottomless hole of the laundry basket, secretly hiding between the children’s t-shirts and my jeans.
My husband stayed out late tonight, going to our daughter’s preschool meeting. I made sure all the clothes are clean AND put away, so he won’t have to face the laundry abyss in the morning.
My husband is retired and it drives him crazy that I leave my “delicate” wash in the dryer when I do to work. He would happily do laundry while I am at work but he doesn’t want to ruin my delicate things. So I will make sure that the dryer is empty before I go to work.
Our kitchen and family room is one big room with a counter in the middle. As counters have a tendency to do, it gets filled with papers, my son’s figurines, glasses, art projects, etc. It drives my husband crazy. I know he likes walking in from work to a clear counter so I try each afternoon before he arrives home to straighten up so when he walks in he feels a sense of peace.
You mean my theory of if you complain it is your job now no longer will work? Okay, Okay, I will check the jeans for MY kleenex BEFORE I wash them. 🙂
A little quirky but one of my husband’s annoyances is getting into the shower to find only a small, tiny little chip of a soap remnant left on the shelf. His biggest contention is that I take up the entire shower caddy with my 10 different “cucumber melon papaya mango coconut vanilla – there’s a produce section in our shower” bath gels so why do I need to use his bar of soap! I made sure a nice fresh bar of soap was readily available 🙂
There is one thing that really bugs my husband and that is my coffee cup collection. I just hate to get rid of anything but they don’t all fit in the cupboard. I guess I will just have to part with some of them today!
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Allen Taylor
my husband worries alot about money so I have finally started reading an online investing book. We have already started sharing ideas and info. Not my favorite thing, however not as bad as I thought either.
I am going to pay the bills (ugh.)
My husband stayed home sick today. I stayed away in the morning and gave him his own quiet morning. In the afternoon we watched movies together and had a fire in the fire place. It was a very relaxed quiet day for both of us. 🙂 Lj