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Old Mar 30, 2015, 02:48 AM
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You are absolutely right he should have had the house clean for you when you got home. Given you a clean slate to start with so you could focus on you and establishing a routine. Most people are still fragile when they first come home. What you came home to definitely wasn't fair.

Do you have a telly maybe kill some time with a movie? I don't know if this is something you can do but when my aunt went inpatient last time we had a housecleaning party for her. Like 10 of her friends and family trooped to her house and let her tell us what she needed done and how she wanted it done(she's pretty nitpicky). We knew her kids and husband weren't going to do squat for her(it's why she went inpatient) and it sounds like you came home to the same crap she did only she didn't have broken glass. My uncle actually started buying him and the kids new underwear/socks/clothes rather than do laundry. Once they had used all the dishes he bought paper plates and all they ate was take out. It was ridiculous.

I hope you have people that can do the same for you. We ordered a pizza and made it a party. We did races for folding clothes and doing dishes. Made little paper trophies to give out for "winning". I know it sounds stupid but we had fun.
Thanks for this!
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