I'm A Heartless, Cruel Wife!

A few days ago Bill got off the phone with one of his lawnmower buddies and said, "I don't want to go to Florida. It takes about 24 hours to get there, then you're racing for two days and come right back."

Now, no one was saying he HAD to go, but he had a few friends that were making it sound tempting. And after almost 20 years of being with Bill, I know that if he out of the blue says "I don't want to," it usually means we DOES want to!

So it was no surprise when I got home yesterday and his first words were, "I've decided to go to Florida!"  After teasing him a bit about his Florida "vacation" and how I deserve one so much more than he does, I told him there were just a few things he needed to do before he went. He needed to line someone up to plow the driveway and shovel the ramp for me if it snowed while he was gone, because I can't afford to be trapped here and can't plow or shovel myself. The second thing was someone needed to get the trash can out to the road Sunday night or Monday morning, because there again I'm physically unable to do it. And the third thing was,he needed to find someone to exercise his dog every day. I do the best I can, and sometimes he misses a day of walking, but there's no way I can handle him if he goes six days straight without a walk!

Tonight he told me he "can't" go because he'll never find anyone to plow the drive or walk the dog. I can't believe it, in this economy? This morning half the vehicles I saw driving through Harrison were trucks with plows on the front! I'm sure at least ONE would be willing to pick up an extra customer for one weekend! The same with Jerry - - he is fun to play with, for someone who is familiar with big dogs.

So I guess I better be ready to hear him say over and over again that the reason why he's not going is because "my wife won't let me go."  This is so unfair, because I don't care if he goes or not! I'm so used to him being gone, I rarely miss him anymore! But I think it's unfair of him to keep gallivanting off having fun with his friends and leaving me in dire straights like this. He NEEDS to start taking my safety into consideration! How can anyone with any kind of brain at all think that this behavior is in any way okay???? I just don't understand him at all, how he can be so thoughtless and so resentful when I point out the obvious to him!