Love
My husband and I have separate hampers and a stronger relationship to show for it.
But one thing Im convinced weve managed to do right is our laundry.
Some household chores you delineate carefully and deliberately, and others haphazardly fall into place over time by default.
Our laundry was the latter.
Why would you want to wash my underwear?
It turns out I did not have a satisfying answer to that question!
I never bothered to broach the topic again.
And Im convinced it plays a role in any domestic harmony weve managed to conjure.
When another person told me they wash their things together because were married, I simply stopped asking.
But Im not naming names.
Why Risk Resenting Each Other?
Marriage is already a series of niceties that get slowly stripped away over time.
Why add manhandling intimate stains of unknown origin to that list?
We all have such a personal relationship to our laundry, anyway.
Lower the bar, level the playing field, and leave their laundry alone.
Then there are the inarguable convenience benefits.
Alison, 40, who lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, understands this conundrum all too well.
This article was originally published onOct.
source: www.bustle.com
