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February 21, 2006, 7:19 pm PST

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Quote From: cap0905

I completely agree.  I do think Kelly is cooking, cleaning, and caring for her children just fine.  I think the real problem is that Grant has unrealistic expectations.  I think no matter how clean the house is or how the meal is cooked it will never be good enough for him.  He has a big problem with his expectations.  Dr. Phil should send Kelly away for a week long vacation and let Grant be the stay at home dad for that week, with no cheating (grandparents help).  He should get a realist taste of what Kelly does everyday.  He seems to think that she doesn't do any work, she just plays with the kids. 

  

I do know about this first hand.  My husband used to come home and expect everything to be cleaned up, I mean everything.  Unrealistic at the time considering we had two small children.  He didn't even want toys in the livingroom.  He would come home at 5:00 pm in the summer and expect that the kids would have all the toys cleaned up in the back yard, he would get angry.  Fortunately for us he realized that this is unrealistic and he changed his focus.   

Kelly is doing the most important things for this time of her life.  She is giving her children the time and attention that they need.   This should be first for Grant also.  Their children will never be small again.  When the children are grown, she'll still be cleaning the house and cooking the meals and she'll have more time for this if this is what she wants to do.  Grant should be a stay-at-home-dad for a month and maybe then he'd find out what are the most important things in life.  Also Grant could help with a lot of the household chores.  Kelly's job lasts 24 hrs a day and it is his children and his house.  If he doesn't want to help, then he could hire someone to help clean their house. 

  

I lost a child to cancer and now my house is not as neat anymore but it doesn't matter because I give my granddaughters a lot of quality time and this is more important than a spotless house.  I still have my house but not my daughter. 

  

Sometimes our priorities are not in the right order, but our families should be the most important part of our lives. 

 


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