My wife and I both work from home due to the pandemic. I am permanent work from home but her job has started calling her back into the building a few days a week. When we first started working from home she set her work station up in the kitchen and I was at the desk in our bedroom. For a while it seemed like every time I'd go into the kitchen during working hours she'd stop working and turn around to look at me. I kind of gave her the "hey" look on my face and then walk out. I could have just been going to take a cup to the kitchen, fix me a pot of coffee, or take my lunch plat in there. I wasn't in there to bother her or even speak to her but she would literally stop working and turn her chair around like I had something to say. I don't want to bother her while she's working. We speak periodically throughout the day but I may not have anything to say to her every time I walk into the kitchen. Or if she came into the bedroom she had to touch me or rub my head in some sort of way. I work on the phones and she doesn't so I could be on a call with a patient when she'll walk up behind me and touch me just to say hi. Or she'll be going to the bathroom and she will find some reason to stick her head into the bedroom door to see what I'm doing.
This is somewhat of a 2 part question and I want to see what you guys think before I add the second part.
How often do you acknowledge your wife given you just saw her maybe 15, 20, or 30 minutes ago?
I posed a similar question on another board and 99% of those who responded said you should acknowledge your spouse every time you see them. If nothing more than a smile, a peck on the cheek, or a pat on the rump. Something! Would that not get old if you and your spouse were together all day long and every time they walked by they touched you in some way? Yeah, we all love our spouses but I don't need that much physical touch and contact with them all day long. You're in the kitchen and I'm in the bedroom, I shouldn't miss you that much. Say you work for the same company in a building. Would you get annoyed if every time they walked by your office or cubicle they had to stick their head in and say "hey babe", "what you doing", or "I love you"?
The first few times it may be cute but when the cuteness wears off would that get annoying? They love you so much they just can't stand to be away from you for a few minutes without coming by to see you or check on you.
This is somewhat of a 2 part question and I want to see what you guys think before I add the second part.
How often do you acknowledge your wife given you just saw her maybe 15, 20, or 30 minutes ago?
I posed a similar question on another board and 99% of those who responded said you should acknowledge your spouse every time you see them. If nothing more than a smile, a peck on the cheek, or a pat on the rump. Something! Would that not get old if you and your spouse were together all day long and every time they walked by they touched you in some way? Yeah, we all love our spouses but I don't need that much physical touch and contact with them all day long. You're in the kitchen and I'm in the bedroom, I shouldn't miss you that much. Say you work for the same company in a building. Would you get annoyed if every time they walked by your office or cubicle they had to stick their head in and say "hey babe", "what you doing", or "I love you"?
The first few times it may be cute but when the cuteness wears off would that get annoying? They love you so much they just can't stand to be away from you for a few minutes without coming by to see you or check on you.
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