No one would dispute the assertion that a handy husband of all trades is great. How wonderful it is when one does not need to wait cautiously for a drunken plumber, a slow electrician, handy workers who are ready to glue the wallpaper in the room for your monthly salary. It is enough to shout: "Miiiilyyy, something is not working here!" and your loved one seeks to place the problem with a new light bulb or a wrench in his hand. And you can only observe the work with pleasure, be happy to accept the results and boastfully tell your friends about what a wonderful and economic husband you have. This, you see, the situation is perfect. But there are others, when women are left, as they say, only with their hands to separate their spouses from the “skills”, which seem to be inherent in him by the fact of being born as a man.
There are many options for economic skills of men. All and not list. We call only the main, so to speak, the most common.
Excessive perfectionism. Men with this, unfortunately, sad dignity, are able to all, but to achieve the desired from them is almost impossible. They always strive to purchase the most expensive tools, in their special cabinets everything is perfectly laid out, each box has its own box, each hammer has its own shelf. They are proud of the order and cultivate it. But when it comes to business, unexpected problems begin. From a strong desire to make everything perfect, even minor repairs can last for months: either there are no suitable tools, then there is no suitable mood. And when everything came together, the water was blocked for the whole day (although it was five minutes), or the light was turned off for half a day. The husband walks with a worried face, with a magnifying glass and incomprehensible tools in his hands, indignant at the fact that his loved ones interfere with the sacrament.
With such a husband to make repairs almost unreal. Firstly, it is impossible to reach an agreement with him, because everything does not reach the level invented by him, and secondly, everything is done slowly again, stretching for long months, accompanied by swearing, dissatisfaction on both sides, uncontrolled financial flows and an endless search for compromises. What can be done in this case? Only two things: either you will do everything yourself, abstracting from your spouse's disgruntled physiognomy, or in search of a compromise you will have patience, affection, wise phrases, and once you will move him to even minor business matters.
"I can not do anything, but always happy to help". There are men with hands, as they say, not growing from there. Whatever they do, it’s utter nonsense. But, despite this sad quality, they are always happy to undertake a work that is not given to them by nature. If the wallpaper is glued, then they will in some kind of, as a rule, completely unexpected moment come off at any place, if they put linoleum, then in a rush they will take the refrigerator to it in its place, which will scratch the new covering, if they buy tile, then without of the stock, if they drill a wall, they will not even think about the scheme of the wires in it. All this is accompanied by a preoccupied surprise of a man and the rage of varying degrees of his wife. How to respond to all this? Depends on temperament and patience. As a rule, breakdowns (unexpected or introduced by the master-craftsman) remain “living” in the apartment until seasonal workers arrive or are, as far as possible, eliminated by the housewife or her friends.
"I do not know how and I do not want." There are men who do not hide their economic inability, and even flaunt them. They say, "yes, I do nothing around the house. Am I really a worker (electrician, plumber, tiler, etc.)? There are specially trained people for this!". To ask such a husband about something is meaningless: he gets tired even to hold a strip of wallpaper, while his wife smears it with glue. They immediately have a backache, show football, a phone rings, etc. What is left to do? Either to cope with your own wit (plus, thank God, there is the Internet), or to shell out for every reason to "experts" who will come sometime, tearing you away from work, and will do everything necessary. You just have to hope that they will do well.
A short enthusiast. This is the type of men, perhaps the worst of all. He has a lot of fuse, which ends as unexpectedly as it appeared. Unfortunately, this applies to large metamorphosis in the apartment: repair, rearrangement, etc. Such husbands are burning with the idea, throwing it into the family, and then, suddenly cooled down, leave the devastation on the shoulders of his wife, who has to finish the job with unsuccessful attempts to bring her husband back to the fold of repair. But how it all began well! My husband gave interesting ideas, started to embody them correctly, correctly guided you and ... tired of himself. What can you do? Knowing such features of the nature of your spouse, either completely refuse the offers, showing resilience and appealing to his sense of expediency, or, rolling up his sleeves, prepare for the fact that you have to finish everything yourself.
Text: Irina Sheyhetova
