The Sweet Husband

When the Sweet Husband is gone

The sweet husband has decided today will be a good day for him to prepare me for what I need to do when he is no longer with me.

This kills me, I honestly don't want this conversation, so when I don't want a conversation, I mess with his head, and normally that frustrates him so bad, he stops speaking to me.

SH: We need to go over everything so that if something happens to me you aren't stuck on what to do.

Me: Ok, let me get this straight, you think that someone who doesn't do what you tell her to do now is just going to magically start if you are gone?

SH: I know there's not much chance of that happening, but I think to get around that I can tell you what NOT to do, and then when you do it, then there ya go.

Me: Well pretty much the way I would handle anything would be to say, Self, would Randy want you doing this and if the answer is yes, then I would say, I don't think I want to do that.

SH: Shaking his head, that's how you handle it now, so I can see that happening after I am gone.

SH: I'm not giving up on this, if we don't have the conversation now, we will have it later, but we ARE going to have it.

Me: You are going to live to be 100, so let's get together in about 25 years and I promise we will talk about it.

SH: I probably won't, so we are going to talk about it soon, how about if we talk about one thing, and then wait awhile before we talk about another thing?

Me: We can talk about anything, I just don't want to think about you being gone, I like it when you go to the deer lease, but I know you will be coming back.

SH: Ok, when I go to the deer lease that is far away,  can we talk about that?

Me: I am sentimental not stupid

Me. We can have this conversation, no problem, its not about what I do when you aren't here, it's about what we do in the future, if at any time I have to do it by myself, then I will deal with that then.

SH: Ok, first things first, when we need to sell the guns, we are going to ask Ricky and Steve to help us, because if we put an ad in the Houston or Dallas Newspaper and some gang shows up at the front door, we don't want to be here by ourselves. Second, we might have to sell one of the vehicles, or the travel trailer at some point, same thing, we will get someone else to help, if we don't want to impose on Ricky and Steve again, then we find someone else. Third but most important, we don't ever let anybody, especially male, sit in my chair if I am not at home.

Me: You don't let anybody sit in  your chair when you are at home.

SH: When I am at home I would knock their ass out, but you aren't very strong, so the best way to keep that from happening is don't let them in here, then they can't sit in it.

Me: I think we should burn your chair if something were to ever happen to you, then I can put it in your urn and you can have it with you forever.

SH: That's my girl, I can rest easy now, but don't set my chair on fire yet, I still got 30 years to go.