Praise Thy Husband
November 20th, 2009 | 
Author: This morning i got off an early phone call from my mum with promises to call her back when i was a little more with it . Needed to finish my cup of tea first.
I was through the room and hubby is sitting on the bed ,arms crossed and sulking.
“What’s wrong?” I ask confused , as far as i am aware i have done nothing wrong .
Using his best little boy voice he moaned as i had not told my mum he got up with the kids this morning , he says i am always quick enough to moan about him but when he does something good i should tell the world.
Now i had talked to my mum for around 2 minutes and had planned to tell her when we spoke again , secondly by getting up with the kids he means he needed to be up early for work and i got an extra 30 minutes in bed .
I get up with the kids every day , i cook and clean and iron and wash and do every other dam thing around here. Where is my praise? How come last night Craig put the dishwasher on (it was all ready to go, just needed his dinner plate) and i have to worship him and his amazing helpful talents ?
Not that i don’t appreciate it , i really do . Every little thing he does is one less thing i have to do , just think it is rather bizarre that each time he does help i have to go on and on about it and tell the world to make him happy.
I guess what i am saying does anyone else have a husband who seems to have not matured past the age of 13? He is great really 
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November 20th, 2009 7:28 am
They’re all like that it seems. Every single one of them. Idiots! >_<
November 20th, 2009 7:34 am
you are so not alone!
November 20th, 2009 7:43 am
I got lucky, my husband helps a lot. But if you knew his mother you would understand why. Johnny’s older brother escaped without learning to really cook or anything. She wasn’t letting Johnny do the same thing. She made sure he would “never have to rely on any woman to make him dinner or clean up his mess” and “no woman would have to take care of him if she didn’t want to” LOL
November 20th, 2009 8:01 am
At times I’m sure the husband’s younger than the five year old boy.
I’m petty - when I do household chores I’ll always make a deal of saying ‘look what I did - aren’t you impressed?’ Usually he is cos I’m pretty undomesticated. At least that way he recognises what I do, and I’m a little more aware of what he’s doing too.
November 20th, 2009 2:23 pm
Men are so funny. Bob is usually very helpful, but there are couple of things that just do not seem to qualify as chores to him. If he bathes Little Elvis, he leaves clothes and towels all over the floor and wet washcloths balled up in the bottom of the tub. He’s also left opened bottles of shampoo just oozing stuff out on the floor. These will stay until I find them and put them up. Last week, I mopped up the shampoo as best I could, but must have left some. He wanted to know why the floor was wet when he went in that night! Um, because he can’t manage to clean up after himself?
November 20th, 2009 6:55 pm
My hubbie really is very helpful but also looks for praise if he does something without being asked. We do sometimes get into a tit for tat argument about who does more around the house but I always win that of course! I admit to never taking out the bin though - that’s a man’s job!!
November 20th, 2009 10:22 pm
They are all the same, lol.
November 21st, 2009 1:56 am
Men are simple creatures. Honestly, if *praise* keeps them happy, then by all means praise the heck out of them. You don’t really have to mean it. Ha ha!
Just don’t make it sound sarcastic or they will smell a rat. A good friend of mine told me that, and it’s SO true.
November 24th, 2009 2:32 pm
I just wrote about something similar yesterday:
http://interruptedwanderlust.blogspot.com/2009/11/daddy-issues.html