Gypsy - I like your idea of de-cluttering. I have been trying to make the home a calm, clean place to be also but have been slipping. Can't keep up with everything (because he is taking basically no responsibility at home for anything anymore) but it is one of my goals. He also has always liked a clean home (and used to HELP with it). One of these days . . . little by little.
I was doing Love Dare when he dropped the bomb - I was about 2/3 way through. At first I was so upset I had "wasted" the time but I now know that the timing was perfect - God knew I needed to put the time into "showing" the love to my husband so I knew I still had it/could feel it. That is one of the reasons I am sticking this out.