One thing that happens when you have been married forever like Pack Rat, my husband, and me is that you fall into roles within your relationship. We each have certain jobs we have taken on as ours in the running of our house and our day to day activities.
This was brought home to my thinking because as Pack Rat was recovering and rehabbing from his total knee replacement all of the daily tasks fell on my shoulders. For the past two months my evenings after work have consisted of walk the dogs, feed the dogs, make dinner, eat dinner, clean up dinner, do a few tasks such as a load of laundry, walk the dogs again, watch a little television, walk the dogs again, give pills to the dogs and then go to bed. Well, in reality it has been go upstairs and fall into bed exhausted.
Pack Rat, "See, you think I do nothing but you can see that I do much more than that when you have to do it all."
Me, "Yes, I get it, no wonder I'm exhausted at the end of the day."
Pack Rat, "Maybe you will appreciate me more when I am back to full activities."
As I tell my friends, it's a good thing he had the knee replacement in the winter. The ground was frozen and it was too much work to dig a grave in the backyard.
All kidding aside I do know that the days of me doing everything will be coming to an end. He will soon be back to doing his tasks within our household. I will have a new appreciation for what he does.
I am grateful that we are coming to an end of this part of our lives. We will be back to normal and he will have the benefits of his new knee.
So we don't realize all the little things that our partners in life do daily to help things go smoothly within the workings of our households or relationships. I do know that I am grateful for everything he does do and I am grateful for him.
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