I wish! He teaches high school and is home over the summer and has tons of projects he wants to do. The thing is they ride the teachers so hard during the school year, for so little pay, keeping them constantly exhausted, I feel bad asking for his help with household chores. He will be having to start teacher training once August starts, which he says is 95% pointless and a waste of time compared to the reality of actually teaching, especially when you get to a subject like he teaches (physics). He works at a title I school, with a lot of students below poverty level, some children of illegal aliens, others barely speaking English. Physics requires a lot of math, and their math skills tend to be so poor, he has to start by teaching them the number line.

During the school year, he never gets time to himself.

But yeah, I wish he would help with the meal prep, especially since I basically have to cook 3 meals. The problem though is our kitchen is small, a galley kitchen, and 2 people cooking at once makes it crowded. But yeah, I wish he’d be more open to eating other foods. I know everyone tends to have some foods they dislike (in my case, beets), but he dislikes a lot of foods.

When I try to push my daughter to do more things for herself, she gets upset (she hates change), runs to him, and he will back her up. But I see her friends doing these things for themselves, and I know I did them for myself at her age. It is frustrating not to even have her try to do things like basic grooming on her own. Sigh.