Heavens, I know that her day is not hers. I work out of my house, so I see what she goes through in a day. Add to that the fact that I have to keep up with work, and you can see where there isn't a lot of free time floating around. One of her hot buttons is unfinished projects around the house. I run out of time, and then a project winds up sitting for far too long, and I found out at the WWME weekend that it just drives her bananas (not that she's any better with finishing her projects mind you). I've often said I wish I could clone myself so that I could get more leisure time and still get all the stuff that has to be done done. Some have suggested I go back working a 9-5 job. 1) I can't imagine working for someone else again, I get bored doing the same thing all the time, 2) I would only make about half of what I make with my current business, which would mean we'd have to make some big sacrifices elsewhere as well, and 3) I'd lose the flexibility I have to help MrsGGB out when she needs a hand (or a hard appendage ) during the day.

Mrs GGB does have the impression that relationships should jsut run themselves and shouldn't require work, and doesn't see why I think we need to work on ours. She makes a lot of her own scheduling problems by trying to do far to much...basically she doesn't know how to say no. As a result, she got roped into running not only two cub scout dens, but also running the pack, plus she's now doing not only my D's brownie troop, but also the daisies because no one else would step up to the plate and "she already had all the materials and know-how". Same thing for the boy scout religious medals, if she didn't do it then apparently no one would and she felt it was important....

I do wish she'd put a tenth of the effort into improving our R that she does in these outside activities. To her, though, there is nothing wrong with our R, so it doesn't need work (her words).