I'm pretty sure it's just plain laziness! He's been telling me for almost 3 years now about how he NEEDS to get that shed built out back to store all our garden tools. Meanwhile he leaves everything out back and it gets rained on and rusted. How he needs to build shelves, how he needs to build a pot rack, how he needs to fix the truck, how we need new cabinets, how the pond needs to be redone. All these things, and if I can do them, I do them, but all that I listed above are things I can't do. All I can do is hope one of these times he'll actually act on it.

Then the things he does do, he doesn't do well. He built a firepit/patio area. The bricks are coming out, weeds and moss have taken over in the cracks and we never use it anyways, but he HAD to have it! He put a new door up in one bedroom because a crack appeared in the other one. He had no idea how to hang a door, but didn't tell me this until afterwards. The door doesn't close all the way and there's now also a hole in the bottom of it because he kicked it trying to get it to line up correctly. Oh and he wanted to stain it so it is all shiny. Said he'd do that to all the other doors too. Of course he didn't so now we have one odd door that's shiny, doesn't close and has a hole in it. He loved the pond when he first made it and it looked good. We had fish in it and everything. Then the fish got eaten because there was no cover, the water got slimy, the lining started to leak. Now we've got a hole in the ground that needs a ton of maintenance, all this stuff for a pond that isn't being used (more money spent on something that isn't maintained) but that was just sort of a passing fancy for him.