Monday, April 19, 2010

Reading entirely too much into a simple dinner?

I'm trying to figure something out.  Tonight, the mrs. has a 6:45 commitment at church.  So here we are, with dinner finished in plenty of time for her to comfortably get where she needs to be, all because at 5:00 she said "oh, it's time to start the grill . . . "  As a result, the thick-cut chops had plenty of time to get done, and everything else just fell into place from there.

So why does that so rarely seem to work when I have to be somewhere?  Is it because I'm not usually here to actually get things started, or to do the cooking?  I mean, all she really did tonight was observe the time, and since I was home this afternoon I took care of the rest.  But I got the impression that she'd have done it if I hadn't.  This makes me wonder if she has some passive-aggressive thing going on?  Does she resent my being gone a couple evenings each week?  I mean, if it's that easy to work backward from when she has to be somewhere to what time the ball needs to start rolling, what keeps it from happening when I have somewhere to be?

Or are my expectations unreasonable?  After all, as I read over it, this seems to be a pretty selfish post . . .

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