{"id":4319,"date":"2010-10-12T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2010-10-12T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T03:26:03","slug":"accepting-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/accepting-help\/","title":{"rendered":"How do your towels get folded?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My husband doesn’t fold the towels the same way that I do.<\/p>\n

This troubled me for years. I appreciated that he was helping, but I was always re-folding so that the towels would stack perfectly in the cabinets.<\/p>\n

Never mind that other clutter was taking over my house, those towel cabinets needed to be straight!<\/p>\n

I had adopted a ‘no underwear folding’ philosophy years before… what was my problem with a few towels askew?<\/p>\n

Last May I was talking with the husband of a friend of mine and another mom. And, yes, somehow the subject of folding towels came up. And each of us was a little obsessed with the way to fold towels, and yet each of us had a very different style.<\/p>\n

It was then I realized that perhaps I could just turn my stack the other way and it would<\/em> still fit properly in the cabinets. And it was then that I realized that perhaps I should just accept my husband’s help, stack with his folding mixed with mine and just be thankful the job is done rather than re-do.<\/p>\n

And so now I more fully accept his gestures of love, support and folded towels.<\/p>\n

Oftentimes doing it ‘my’ way doesn’t really help with the workload but adds to it. I am now thankful to accept his help, however he wants to share it. When he doesn’t do something my way, I’m now more likely to think about it before I jump and offer my ‘guidance’ as to how something ‘should’ be done.<\/p>\n

And he is more willing to help. And that totally Works for Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What about you? If you are married, how do you accept your husband’s help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband doesn’t fold the towels the same way that I do. This troubled me for years. I appreciated that he was helping, but I was always re-folding so that the towels would stack perfectly in the cabinets. Never mind that other clutter was taking over my house, those towel cabinets needed to be straight! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moms-journal","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}