Posted by AdaGrace on October 31, 2005, at 6:52:17
After a lovely (sarcastic tone dripping from my mouth) day of shopping and eating out with the family, I announced that I was going to take a day off this week and go shopping for our daughter's birthday coming up.
My husband said, "Take a day off? A day off from what?"
In case I need to clarify, I am not working anymore., I lost my job over a month ago due to my place of employment going out of business. Even though I realize that I have a financial burden to bear, I am receiving unemployment. This covers most of the same bills I was paying before, there just isn't any extra. I had already decided that I was going to take a few months off before I went back to work. I've worked very hard all my life, often 50+ hours a week for 20 years, and tried to raise three kids and keep a home clean and kept up. Even though I am not working, I have been busy every day since this happened. There have been many maintenance jobs that my husband could have done, but didn't, that I have done. I have deep cleaned almost every room in the house. Etc. Etc. During this time I have also been helping renovate my Dad's rental house, including painting the outside. Now, yes, there have been maybe 3 or 4 days in which I did not do anything. Did not go out of the house, did not do any cleaning, did not cook. Just layed around and cried. But I think my average of 4 days out of 6 weeks is pretty good.
Was that a fair thing for my husband to say? Or am I just crazy as usual like he said, and took it the wrong way?
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thread:573675
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