Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for October 05, 2018

OK… I went to Twitter (it’s a bit closer than Facebook, you know) and fetched Tony’s question.

Another real one… but …um… it seems as disconnected as yesterday’s.

“You know you do?”

Anybody else getting a little worried about Tony?

I mean… I’m sure it’s nothing….

But then… the first Tweet on his page says “Punk van Gogh Irises Skull”.

OKaaaay…

I’m not sure what or whether I know I do…. (??) …

but I know that fake ineptitude thing is lame.

Not just the TV sitcom “Father Knows Nothing” angle…

But a couple shouldn’t resort to dishonesty and deception with each other, much less try to get away with doing the least work.

And who wants to be thought of as incapable of simple chores, anyway?

Every chore doesn’t have to be evenly split….

Sometimes it works better if they’re divided by preference.

I wouldn’t mind doing dishes every day forever if someone else would mop the floor.

And if there’s something both hate to do…. or if one person simply hates it all…

They need to stop dumping it onto each other.

Sometimes you both need to stop and think…. and grow up.

“Taking care of each other” includes sometimes doing things you dislike so the other one doesn’t have to do them..

It’s an attitude that can be mutually learned….

even a contract that can be consciously entered.

And it grows. I’ve seen it.