We have a marital agreement that we don’t do “jobs” together. To increase efficiency and not become one of those couples who wander around shops looking bored and medicated, we have a strict “one job, one person” policy.
Rarely do we move out of our assigned lanes. Husband does hardware, horticulture and meat products (plus maintenance of associated meat equipment such as barbecues and coal-fired rotisseries). I do pretty much everything else.
So it came as a complete surprise when he suggested we head to the Swedish home of flat pack furniture to look at new lighting. I checked his temperature and wondered if this was the first sign of early-onset dementia. It was very out of character. He assured me he was fine, but figured it might be good…
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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2021