Strange you should mention that, Nancy. My brother-in-law is a slob. My sister takes it with a sense of humor (up to a point) and refers to socks and dishes strewn about as his "droppings." Fortunately, I wasn't raised that way by my mother. I have childhood scars on my head to prove it. For all my shortcomings, being a slob is not one of them. Maybe that's why I'm not my wife's "ex."

That a wife is never good enough for mommy's little boy seems to be a universal axiom. If I'd waited and shopped around I'd have done so much better. Our child, however, is something else. She's perfection from heaven. Thank God, she spent enough time with grandma to learn the things my wife would have never got around to teaching.(sigh)

Nancy, you should have taken the socks out to the driveway, soaked them with a flammable liquid, and torched them off.  

Had a test of will with my ex once.  He would come in, sit in the recliner, take his shoes and socs off and drop the socks beside the chair.  I finally rebelled and refused to pick them up.  He refused to pick them up.  The pile had gotten quite high when the MIL called and said she was coming over.  Guess who won the test of wills?    No wife will let her MIL come over with a stack of dirty socks on the liv. rm. floor.  The hubby doesn't care since he knows every MIL knows the wife is never good enough for her boy and the bad wife is just a bad housekeeper.

I used to do a lot more housework while my wife was at work, but then I discovered this damn blog....

Well, allow me to go on the record as saying that I would have to do tons more work around the house if it were not for my spouse.

He does the bulk of the laundry, shopping, cleaning, dishes and yard work --- and that's just off the top of my head.

And he rarely watches baseball :o)

If the typical wife is like mine, she makes it harder on herself by not being practical. I do help my wife with housework. You familiar with dishwasher soap? Great stuff for getting clothes clean and I use it to do my own gym laundry. She gets upset because I used the dishwasher.

And why is cooking such a chore? When it's my turn to cook, I get fried chicken or pizza. Sometimes I make sandwiches. I tell I'm saving energy. She doesn't have an answer for that because she just turns away without saying anything.