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My husband drew this cartoon of me.
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Many of you have noticed a common thread running through the challenges I post about my husband. I say something, make a request, give him information, and he'll acknowledge it. Then minutes later it falls out of his head. I might as well have never said a word.
Tonight we had a productive conversation about it. I told him I *know* I'm reading the situation wrong, but what it feels like is that maybe I just didn't say anything worth paying attention to. He, of course, acknowledged that this is wrong.
Then I told him the imagery I was coming up with in my head.
We keep an open bin next to our kitchen garbage to put our recycling in. Imagine how it looks when it hasn't been emptied yet. I walk by and toss in a plastic water bottle. It then ricochets off cardboard boxes and soda cans, bounces out, and ends up on the floor, where I have to pick it up and put it back in. That can be annoying.
Hubby got the picture, and he agrees. His brain is like the recycling bin. Sometimes it's just too full. Any new information isn't going to stick. It's going to bounce off of everything else that's already in there, and be right back out. Does this mean the water bottle isn't good enough and doesn't deserve to be recycled? Now, that would be just plain silly, wouldn't it?
Please keep hubby in your prayers. The forgetfulness and overwork and overstress *is* starting to cause him trouble on his job. He needs to find a way to empty his cluttered brain out.
Tonight we had a productive conversation about it. I told him I *know* I'm reading the situation wrong, but what it feels like is that maybe I just didn't say anything worth paying attention to. He, of course, acknowledged that this is wrong.
Then I told him the imagery I was coming up with in my head.
We keep an open bin next to our kitchen garbage to put our recycling in. Imagine how it looks when it hasn't been emptied yet. I walk by and toss in a plastic water bottle. It then ricochets off cardboard boxes and soda cans, bounces out, and ends up on the floor, where I have to pick it up and put it back in. That can be annoying.
Hubby got the picture, and he agrees. His brain is like the recycling bin. Sometimes it's just too full. Any new information isn't going to stick. It's going to bounce off of everything else that's already in there, and be right back out. Does this mean the water bottle isn't good enough and doesn't deserve to be recycled? Now, that would be just plain silly, wouldn't it?
Please keep hubby in your prayers. The forgetfulness and overwork and overstress *is* starting to cause him trouble on his job. He needs to find a way to empty his cluttered brain out.