"JUST A PILE OF DIRTY CLOTHES"
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I walked past the dirty laundry basket yesterday, and saw my husband’s dirty work clothes on the floor right beside it. Seeing this only made me appreciate him more.
I read a post a few weeks ago about how the men in our lives tend to never be able to put their clothes after work, into the laundry basket. How they’re sometimes on the floor.
When I first saw this, I agreed. I thought to myself “oh my god THIS! It’s SO annoying!” I even showed my husband the article saying “why do you do this?!” And that’s the way I thought, until yesterday.
My husband came home from work.
Sweaty.
Dirty.
Tired.
He sat down on the floor and played with our kids, asked what was for dinner, if I needed any help, then went to take a shower.
Ten minutes later, I walked past the laundry basket, right where our washroom also is, and I see it.
The thing that would usually make me yell through the shower door.
The thing that used to be so annoying.
The thing that seems so little now, that it also seems like I was looking for a fight.
This time, I see something different.
I notice the stains all over his work pants.
I notice the dirty socks stuffed into his destroyed work boots.
I notice the sweat filled t-shirt.
The evidence of just how hard he works, is all over the clothes he left on the floor.
I looked at those dirty clothes on the floor, that I once would have started a fight over.
I picked them up, put them in the basket, and walked away.
When he got out of the shower, he noticed his dirty shoes and clothes were no longer there, and that I hadn’t said anything.
“Thank you” he said to me.
Which he had not said before, probably because I was too quick to start an argument about it.
He said “thank you for putting that away, I had a long day. I was planning to put them in the wash when I was out of the shower.”
“I know. I could see it on your clothes.” I said back.
I realized in that moment, that sometimes the little things that annoy us, can be looked at differently.
I stopped looking at it as dirty clothes on the floor, and started looking at it as proof of just how hard my husband works to provide for us and our children.
The dirty boots that normally annoyed me, showed how sore his feet must be.
The sweat stained shirt showed how hot he must have been at work.
The sweaty socks showed how physically hard he works everyday.
All of it piled right by the bathroom door, showed me he couldn’t wait any longer to get out of those gross clothes.
I am grateful he left his clothes on the floor that day.
I saw him in a whole new light.
It just took me awhile to see it.
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