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Please, just finish something.

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You’d think with all the free time my husband has since retiring projects would be finished in no time flat. Hell, 10 years ago he built a two story barn on nights and weekends when working full time, but now that there’s nothing definite on the schedule? Everything gets started and nothing gets finished…. which drives me absolutely insane.

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Last week he started redoing the back yard stone wall.

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He squared one corner and then stopped, leaving my rose bush dangling precariously.

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It’s hard to tell from the photo but the rose that our neighbor gave me in honor of my mother when she passed, the one that’s bloomed beautifully for years… now has a channel of air on the right side where the dirt and mulch used to be. I keep threatening to fill it back in but the husband hollers he’s not done with the wall.

So finish it!

We have a small home office with two desks. Mine is free and clear and organized, his? Not so much.

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It’s cluttered with stamps he started identifying, first day issues he started researching, price tags for a yard sale he’ll never get around to having, random old coins and airworthiness directives from a job where he is no longer employed. And while I try to ignore that mess, it’s a bit harder to ignore this one –

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The strategically placed pile of boxes, bags and packing material that accompanied the multiple loads of crap he belched up from the cellar two months ago. He says he’s still sorting and going through them, but he’s not and probably never will.

Sigh.

I’m too type A to work this way. I start something, I see it through and move on. It really makes me wonder how I’ve let him live this long…

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25 thoughts on “Please, just finish something.”

  6. Yep, the thing with living alone or with a cat, is that there’s no one to push you to finish things you started. It’s not that bad, just a small bar height table and two chairs and four boxes of stuff I have to figure out if it’s trash or to donate.

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  10. My husband and I are the same way! I’m the type A and he is definitely not. He just sent me a text with all the projects he’s going to (start) this summer. I asked nicely if he might be able to finish those he started last summer…..?

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  13. Time to play armchair psychologist: maybe your husband is secretly afraid that once he finishes these projects, there will be nothing left to do, and therefore his self-worth will diminish.

    Or, maybe he’s afraid you’ll give him 10 more things to do!

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