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Dear Hubster,

Yes, I do appreciate your sudden understanding that I would like some help with the dishes.  What I do not appreciate is the constant fishing for some sort of compliment or pat on the back.  Must you every morning ask me “Wasn’t it nice to wake up and have no dishes in the sink?”  The dishes I awoke to every morning were yours from the night before after I did all the dinner dishes, so yes, it is nice that you are doing your own dishes.  I also do not need to be told every night about you “nighttime dish-washing routine.”  I got it.  You’re making an effort to do the dishes, even if we both know that you have ulterior motives (like giving me some relaxing time before bed so I won’t be “too tired”).

Last weekends comment about leaving the cheesy egg pan for you to clean was unwarranted. I did not make cheesy eggs for the kids just so you would have to clean the pan.  I never imagined you would clean the pan, and by the way, you didn’t.

It’s been a week and a half since you started regularly helping with the dishes, after 15 years of asking.  I’m learning to not be so obsessed with keeping the sink free of dirty dishes and have even left dinner dishes in the sink and gone to bed.  Who am I to mess with your “nighttime routine”? 

Now, when you feel confident that the dishes will remain in you routine, let me know, I’d love to add some laundry to your routine as well.

Love Ya,

S~

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