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Post by lisae on Oct 17, 2024 1:26:32 GMT
I do a lot to help DH and he does a lot for me. They are different things though. Whoever goes out, brings in the mail that day. If no one goes out, one of us will go to the box or maybe both of us to just get in a walk. So that varies. However, I am usually the one who goes through the mail and gives him his mail. I open all financial and medical stuff because he doesn't want to deal with it. If it is something else and addressed to him, I put it in his office chair and it is up to him to deal with it.
So it would be wrong for me not to do with his mail what was part of our normal routine. Do I occasionally get behind in opening mail or forget to put something in his office? Sure. He forgets things too.
Common courtesy in our marriage is saying please and thank you even for the routine things we do for each other. It hasn't died at our house.
Out in public, mostly I think people are courteous. Something that annoys me is when I let someone pull out in front of me as I did today and I didn't even get a wave. I always wave to someone if they do that.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 17, 2024 2:04:33 GMT
Infantilising your spouse and common courtesy are very different things. I for one didn't get married to baby someone. Thank you. Question for the general peas : Would you husband have made sure YOU voted? Made sure you saw your mail in ballot wherever the mail gets deposited in your home? Mine would not. We typically vote early in person and we usually go together. We have had mail in ballots on occasion and we would fill them out together. DH knows I do a lot more research on the down ballot candidates than he does and he would ask me who he should vote for! Also, if I didn’t bring in the mail it would literally sit out in the mailbox endlessly until it overflowed. It wouldn’t matter what was due to arrive. DH can’t be bothered to deal with it.
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Post by lisae on Oct 17, 2024 12:23:23 GMT
Question for the general peas : Would you husband have made sure YOU voted? Made sure you saw your mail in ballot wherever the mail gets deposited in your home? It's hard to answer because I have only done an absentee ballot once in my life. We always vote in person. He will point out where the mail is if he is the one to bring it in. Regarding voting in general, we talk about politics a lot so he might ask when I'm going to vote - early or on election day. If it is on election day, he would ask when I'm going which is sort of a reminder. Personally, I think it is up to you as a citizen to vote which means remembering to actually vote. If you are going to be out of town or otherwise detained as I was with a medical procedure in 2008 when I absentee voted, then you should make arrangements and follow through. It isn't really your spouse's or anyone elses responsibility but yours.
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Post by peppermintpatty on Oct 17, 2024 12:33:16 GMT
Common courtesy and holding your husband's hand because he is too lazy or doesn't care to fill in his ballot are completely different things.
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