She said to me recently, "I never understood why you didn't clean your room." I said, "why didn't you ask me to?" She said, "I didn't think I should have to." I said, "well I figured that if you really wanted it done, you'd have said something." I see now that I was doing the same thing to H.
Wow, that is interesting. My parents were quite laissez-faire when it came to chores for me and such. It still rubs off today. I'm not big on chores. And will often figure/assume H will tell me when it gets to the point of driving him nuts. I see where that is not the best way to go but boy is it hard to break that way of operating. I guess I'm more like the guys on this issue. I just don't see the point of having to do things a certain way. As Corri said, Chill out. But I do see where I need to step it up more. It's the "doing" part though that I actually have to work on. I revert back to being a child when it comes to housecleaning. Youngest of sex kids, parents didn't seem too concerned that I wasn't doing my "fair share" and I probably have a similar R with H today. I wait for him to do it half the time. No wonder I drive him nutty sometimes. I still need to grow up. Rats.
Edit: Lol! "sex" should be "six" It's on the brain??