For those of you who are married or have children under the age of 18 living at home, I'm not sure this is going to be a unique problem but we are drowning at my house
-We are running out of space and also my wife is getting hostile of late whenever I make noise on my side of the home/office during the day. She cannot handle any outside noise and she has a lot of Zoom type calls throughout the day but there is an even larger problem with working from home 80% of the time...
-Straightening up/Cleaning up has become an eye sore to say the least. I walked in this morning after some morning appointments and go into the kitchen and realize it looks like a bomb went off inside there. I'm exaggerating of course but not much. I broke down last month and finally hired a new house cleaner, my wife drove the last one away after 4 full years here. Everything was OK until my wife started working from home and I knew it was going to be an issue.
It's starting to put a strain on our marriage IMHO and I can't say much or else we start getting into a tug of war and then we both feel lousy a little while later
-Another example is just the clothes situation...i can do all the laundry in the world, fold it and even set it on my wife's pillow but somehow the clothes do not find their way into her many chests of drawers. The walk in-closet that is bigger than some studio apartments, you can't even barely get the door open to it.
We have 2/2 with a Den/Office, 1600+ sq ft, should be plenty of room
I should have never let her talk me into closing up the storage unit. I know it's painful to shell out $200 a month on things you likely should just throw away or not have in boxes but believe me this is far worse. I want to rent a U-Haul and load it up with everything not currently being used and open a new storage unit, the closets in here are overflowing.
-I love my wife and it's totally not her fault. They have made it almost impossible to come into the offices, all but encouraging folks to work full time from home. If you can believe it, my wife has staff that complain about not being able to come into the offices.
I answered my own issues here, I need to get a lot of junk/stuff out of here and try to get my wife some help.
...but just to share, I bought my wife a Bellicon trampoline from Germany and I thought it would be excellent inside the condo since she doesn't get out much, she can just bounce for 5-10 minutes and get the blood circulating...it's used as more of a coffee table in her office, I just want to cry.
One quick thing. Don’t put your wives clothes on her pillow. After laundry, put her stuff away. Second quick thing, take stuff out of boxes and throw **** away that you don’t use. Those seem like the two best things to maybe get closer to happy.
Also, don’t buy your wife something she didn’t ask for that might not get used or perishes like flowers.
My wife hates flowers and she hates almost all gifts bought as a way to counter something I've done, I do not get off light or easy, it must be something from the heart
She'd prefer I make a nice meal for her
-And let me make sure I have this straight. You want me to put clothes away into drawers already full of other clothes?
See, I have one of those unique wives that fluctuates in weight and can bounce between 2 or 3 sizes so she needs 3 wardrobes.
But I really appreciate you sticking up for her, it's exactly what I need right now.
You're right SB
But the clutter is getting the best of me