More religious people have come to jesus talks, but I don't believe in jesus and Josh is jewish anyway so that wouldn't make sense. I took your advice and tried to be open to Josh having different ways of doing things.
Um Josh eats like twice as much food as we do. Now it's clear why he works out so much - he has to, to keep eating over 2000 calories each day. By yesterday we had no more cereal and only three eggs left. While my sisters and I will take one heart of romaine lettuce and share it, Josh eats one entire heart himself. He eats more often and eats bigger portions than we do.
All three of us have gone to get food and found it gone, lost to Josh. So it was time for a talk. Especially considering that Josh eats the most food but cleans the kitchen the least of all of us.
So I told him this morning. That my sisters and I plan out what we'll eat each day of the week before we go food shopping. That we rotate who cooks dinner and cleans up from it and throws out the garbage. Josh said he didn't realize it. I asked how, especially since he came food shopping with us. He doesn't know. I asked if he heard us talking about "this rice is on sale so let's get one and split it between Tuesday and Thursday" and "let's get extra tomatoes to make sauce and freeze it for next week". Josh claimed no.
When I got home from work tonight there were two packages of steak in the freezer, a new pint of ice cream, dozen eggs, bag of string beans, quart of milk, and a roll of paper towels. Josh had set the table for dinner. It was Alex's night to cook dinner and Josh cleaned up and emptied the garbage.
I am not sure I will ever get used to how easily Josh spends money and consumes and buys things. I am not sure Josh will ever get used to how closely I watch money and how I consume things I buy. But he looks really cute sucking a lollipop while washing dishes.
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nothing quite as cute as a man doing the dishes, and with a lolly no less, glad your talk worked out:)
Sounds like you both handled that well. Good job talking it through instead of getting resentful.
Good job, both of you.
Also, remember that not all of it is background. He's a guy. My husband does not come from money, is careful with money, helps out, does chores etc.--but the concept of planning meals for the week is totally alien to him. He doesn't even try to grasp it. He just says, "Can I have this?" before he takes things out of the fridge.
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