The Box

In the past few years that my husband and I have been together we've learned to love around each other. By all means we love each other...each other's strengths, and moving around each other's flaws. Where he is flawed I move in and where I am flawed he is there with a strength. For us, this is just how we work. And it seems to apply with just about everything. He is writing a book, I edit it. I can't reach the spices in the top of the cabinet, he nonchallantly puts it on the counter. We seem to flow this way.

However, there is one thing that we are completely opposite about. I wonder, how many women can relate to this situation.

To explain I am going to use a box. A really heavy box. I don't think this has ever been a real situation in our house but, let's roll with it!

Now, the box has been sitting there for, let's say, three days. We've both walked by it without a second thought. Until about 11pm right before we go to bed, or in the middle of a movie, suddenly I remember the box. The box I meant to move yesterday. At this point the box has to be moved! So I lift and prod, making every attempt to somehow move this box to where I want it. But it barely budges.

In the mean time...

(Not Tim, obviously.)
He says, "Hey! I'll move it tomorrow!" and then "It's been sitting there for three days it's not going to hurt anything to wait til tomorrow!" But I still try, at this point it has to be moved before anything else can be done! I don't know why, but it just does. Eventually he'll be tired of listening to me curse and kick the box that he'll get up and move it for me. But not before telling me I need to "relax" and not before reminding me (under his breath) that "The damn thing's been there for three freakin days!"


I seem to decide that things need to be done right now. For whatever reason. The dishes, laundry, budgeting. Whatever it is. And usually right before we go to bed, or on the way home from taking Colton to school (which is my only down time for the day). For whatever reason this is just the way it is.