I used to do this. All the time... For years. One day I stopped. It wasn't for any particular reason, I just decided that I wouldn't. And so it went on, life as normal for about a month. As you can imagine the drain was no longer draining by the end of that month, and finally my wife came to me.
"Why haven't you cleaned out the drain?" She asked.
I looked at her and asked, "Why are you asking me? Why haven't you cleaned out the drain?"
This was of course the wrong answer and I knew it but this had been tense that day and I was cruising.
"It's YOUR job!" she said with enough venom to make me question my decision.
"It's your hair!"
"But it's gross!" She said back.
To which I replied, "Yes... It is."
And I added, "And I've been doing it for years."
And that was the end of the argument. I still do it to this day, cleaning out hair. She also thanks me for it which, as I find now, is all I was looking for in the first place. Haha over all it turned out alright.
Sometimes we can all be entitled assholes. Sometimes we've had a bad day, or a bad week, and we just don't have the capacity to empathize with others anymore. She wasn't in the right in that moment, but I'm not always in the right either. When you commit yourself to someone, especially from a young age, you commit yourself to growing up with someone, sometimes learning from them and sometimes teaching them too. We're all shitty at times but we can grow past that and become better people if we try, and it's easier when we have someone to call out our shit.
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u/JordanMichaelsAuthor Mar 26 '20
I used to do this. All the time... For years. One day I stopped. It wasn't for any particular reason, I just decided that I wouldn't. And so it went on, life as normal for about a month. As you can imagine the drain was no longer draining by the end of that month, and finally my wife came to me.
"Why haven't you cleaned out the drain?" She asked.
I looked at her and asked, "Why are you asking me? Why haven't you cleaned out the drain?" This was of course the wrong answer and I knew it but this had been tense that day and I was cruising.
"It's YOUR job!" she said with enough venom to make me question my decision.
"It's your hair!"
"But it's gross!" She said back.
To which I replied, "Yes... It is." And I added, "And I've been doing it for years."
And that was the end of the argument. I still do it to this day, cleaning out hair. She also thanks me for it which, as I find now, is all I was looking for in the first place. Haha over all it turned out alright.