The Sweet Husband

The SH and the Bad Mood

The sweet husband has been practicing on his pain in the butt behaviour, at least it does take some practice since we got older, he's not nearly as accomplished as he was in our younger years.

The cracked ribs are driving him crazy,he has a lot to do to get the camper to the deer lease and he doesn't know if he can do it because of the ribs. He doesn't even know if he can get the camper hooked to the pickup because of his rib pain, and just generally doing more negative thinking by the minute.

I listen nicely for a few hours, and then I say, ok big boy, let's try to discuss some solutions instead of the problems, seems like to me that will get us further.

He says, ok, the first problem  is getting the trailer hooked to the truck, you can't do it, you are not strong enough, I can't do it because of my ribs.

Ok, is this something we could ask Steve to help you with or if you don't want to ask him, or if he is too busy we can get Jacob to come over after Brandi goes to work this weekend and he can go help us.

Then he says, we have to get Johnny's old trailer moved out of the way so we can put the new one there.

Is that something you just have to back up to and pull it out of the way?

There's a little bit more to it than that, you have to jack it up and move the levels out from under it, then move it and I can't bend over and pull on those things.

Ok, If Ricky is going to be at the deer lease, can't you get him to help you, or I can call my friend Vera and see if she knows some young, strong kid that can go with us over there, and we can pay them to do the heavier work that you can't do.

He sits there awhile, saying nothing. I ask him, well, do you feel better now, less stressed and just maybe able to calm yourself down?

He goes into the thinking position, chair back, legs crossed, hands clasped together behind his head, eyes closed, and he says don't think that all that being reasonable bullshit is going to shut me up, you know it won't.

Probably not, but a girl has to try.