Wife Puts Herself On The Back Burner While Prioritizing Her Family, Her Husband Discovers A Cheat Code To Leverage Her Into Taking Care Of Herself Too

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    Smile - Posted by u/Primary-Remote 5203 6 hours ago D My husband noticed I haven't been taking care of myself lately, so he's now matching me on self-care tasks. And what a thing it is to be loved like this.
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    Font - This is going to be mushy. I'm just going to warn you now. But I need to get vulnerable for a minute and tell someone about something my husband's doing.
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    Font - In the past month, our lives have been mess. One of our dogs was hospitalized after a 20+ minute seizure, we had a pipe in our wall burst and our home flooded, my husband broke his arm and found out he needs surgery. It's been a lot.
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    Font - Especially with my husband's broken arm- I don't resent him or anything like that and he does what he can, but it's a lot of extra work for one person to completely run a household and be the only source of income. And I guess somewhere in the midst of balancing medications, and appointment schedulings, and furniture replacing, I stopped taking care of myself.
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    Font - It wasn't something I had noticed I was doing, until my husband pointed it out. I was telling him I had a headache, and he asked what I'd eaten and how much water I'd had, and I told him nothing and none because I'd been busy. And he asked when I last took a shower was, and I guess five days can go by really fast, and he told me I need to slow down and take care of myself.
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    Font - He said I'd never let him go without those things, so why do I let myself? And then he said, you know what, I'm only going to drink water if you do, but I'll match what you drink, glass for glass.
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    Organism - And I thought he was joking until he said something about being thirsty, and I was like do you want me to get you some water? and he was like Well, you can't since you haven't gotten yourself any today. And soon enough I was drinking a minimum of 6 glasses a day, just to make sure he was, too.
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    Font - He started doing it with food, too. And I know I should want to take care of myself for me. I get that. And for the most part I do. But when life gets bustling and you get busy taking care of everyone else, it's so easy to forget about yourself.
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    Font - And I don't know. I just wanted to put that out there. Because I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have someone who cares like that, even if it is my husband.
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    Font - UncleVoodoo0 7 hr. ago Its nice to see actual partners in this sub
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    Facial expression - CuteCats789-6 hr. ago This is genius actually. It's easy to lose sight of oneself while taking care of others. This way, because you love your husband and see that he hasn't eaten or showered, for him to do so, you have to take care of yourself.
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    Font - conchus 5 hr. ago This is fantastically wholesome. Lots of people will put themselves on the back burner to look after others first. Your husband has discovered a cheat code to leverage off that so you look after yourself too. What a man! Just remember that if you look after yourself you will find it easier to be efficient and effective. Not eating and drinking water especially will muddle your brain and make an already large group of tasks much larger. Spending a few minutes just looking
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    Font - Pickle_kickerr. 4 hr. ago This makes me so happy to read. My husband and I have a similar connection. He cut his finger open on Christmas Day.. I took care of his finger (am nurse) and for the next two weeks helped him wash his hair and do things like the dishes etc. I know he would do the same. True love is such a wonderful thing.

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