The Fourth Key: Relationships – What Produces Trust? Predictability

My younger daughter is planning her wedding (as I write this).

It's never easy to tell someone how to get things "to work out" between any two people, but I found myself giving her a bit of advice the other day.

I told her how Mom and I just started taking responsibility for certain things around the house… and it's been working pretty well for 28 years of marriage.

Pam, for years, has worked OUT of the house and my office is IN the house. So I told her than no matter how much of a super woman she is, she isn't SuperWoman.

She just could NOT do all the (to some people) typical female activities around the house.

Every Monday, I do the laundry – wash and fold and put it in a basket on our bed so when she comes home, she can put her clothes away. Her pants are hung over the railing outside the laundry room next to our bedroom so she can put them on pants hangers.

Pam does the grocery shopping and when I'm here, I help her put it away.

She usually cooks one roast or chicken a week and we both then prepare our own dinners and salads (and usually eat them together). And if she cooks, I clean up (well, most of the time – especially for a dinner like Thanksgiving when we host our extended family).

I vacuum the upstairs weekly – my office, the hallway, our bedroom, our bathroom, the walk-in closet. That way any cat litter the cat has tracked into our room will be cleaned up. And any dog hair on my office carpet will be vacuumed before my computers suck it into their processors.

So… what's the point here?

If either Pam or I one day just STOPPED doing what has fallen naturally to us OR if either of us gets erratic in how we accomplish our chores, we'd lose faith in the other one and we'd lose all sense of predictability.

This doesn't mean that Pam brings home the same food every week or that I have to clean exactly the same clothes every week.

We still have choices in what we do… but we've come to rely on the other to get things done.

Makes for a good marriage, good partnership, and good client/owner relationship.

I THINK that helped my daughter understand our relationship better… time will tell!

I HOPE it helped YOU!

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Charlie Seymour Jr
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