Why hello roller coaster of life…would you mind stopping the ride now?! In all seriousness, one of the things that’s kind of stopped up my brain lately has been stress. Stress from my job, stress regarding some personal things, stress from something silly like “What do I want to eat” … stress is eating me alive.
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So Saturday I asked Alex to take on a more active role with our finances. I’ve handled these for a number of years because 1. I had more time and 2. I am better at it than he is.
(Not trying to come across snobby here, just stating what has been a well-known fact in our marriage.)
Alex has been asking and showing a lot more interest lately and finally on Saturday I just said
“Will you take over managing our finances?”
He knows that this is probably one of my biggest stressors / reasons to worry. Why – couldn’t tell you. I had a great childhood so that isn’t the root of my money fears, but man do I have money fears. So this is a HUGE step for me.
Alex has really stepped it up though and taken the initiative to get a planner, to ask me about our current set up, to define a way that he can use to manage the money, and to ask me to keep watching while he learns the ropes so to speak. The worry is still there, but man I feel better now!
How about you, What’s something you’d like someone to take off your hands?
The only thing I’d like to have taken off my hands is house cleaning. BUT I’d want someone who knows how to clean well, and doesn’t have to be told what to do. Nearly impossible to find anyone like that. So I plod along, doing a tiny bit each day. Trouble is, the need for cleaning things goes faster than what I can do.
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I think as long as someone stuck to my organizational plan (dishes here, etc) I wouldn’t mind having someone who needed to be prompted. I just don’t have the money for help like that!
Hey steph (you know me from Special Mom Space)
I got the same deal here. I wish my husband could do our finances but i know i’m better at it. I just wish I weren’t!
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:-p Its definitely been an interesting learning curve while Alex has started to take over the finances and those include days when I’m more inclined to yank it back from him. Patience is definitely the name of this switch-over game!