I cook more often and better than Mrs. WI. I do it because I love to cook and she's perfectly happing letting me.

I have always done my own laundry, since I was old enough to reach the knobs. If something needs to be done, there's no benefit in waiting for someone else to do it for you when you're perfectly cabable.

I've always been mechanically inclined, and that's something that my mother took advantage of. When the wire attached to the heating element in Mr. Coffee corroded & broke off, I had to fix it. When the clothes drier needed a belt replaced, I had to fix it. When the portable mixer smelled funny, I had to take it apart & clean the caked on powder from years of recipes out of it. I was but a wee lad at the time, but that's an excuse and excuses are not allowed.

Now that I own a home, I'm somehow magically supposed to know how to do everything just because I have a penis. I should "just know" how to install windows, cut holes in the roof for a dormer, replace brakes, lay down a tile floor & build kitchen cabinets from scratch. Well I have news for you, when things don't come out perfectly...it's because I'm not an expert and I'm learning this stuff as I go. You saved a boatload of cash by having me do it, and you got what you paid for. It leans a little to the left and there's a slight squeak. Get over it.

Wow...I musta needed to say that. ha ha

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.