Dear LW: Bless you, bless you, bless you, and I know you have better things to do with your time, so will someone else please take up the task of writing an advice column with that theme? I digress, but it's beautiful.
Also, presumably, while there are all kinds of lawyers and all kinds of law jobs, I would think that LW's husband is indeed familiar with the concept of billable hours and the idea that his time is indeed worth something. This is a thing to sit down and hash out with each other because nobody is happy with this state of affairs and there is almost certainly some solution where they're both happier than they are now. (Hey, maybe there's some alternate style of landscaping that would improve the property value and be more low-maintenance; conversely, maybe there's a different kind of garden/yard/whatever that they could put in that he'd like working on, at least more than he does this one! Or, you know, maybe they need to look into moving to another property with less outside work! There, that's three options off the top of my head that are not/i> the advice columnist's rather useless answer.) (For some reason, I'm reminded of the letter-and-updates from earlier this week, about the two-lawyer couple where the husband started out being self-righteous about personal development--- and by extension personal misery--- and came to the realization that he was the one with the problem. I don't think this one is going to be that bad, but then again it might be once they dig under why husband is insisting on doing something he hates when there are other options.)
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Dear LW: Bless you, bless you, bless you, and I know you have better things to do with your time, so will someone else please take up the task of writing an advice column with that theme? I digress, but it's beautiful.
Also, presumably, while there are all kinds of lawyers and all kinds of law jobs, I would think that LW's husband is indeed familiar with the concept of billable hours and the idea that his time is indeed worth something. This is a thing to sit down and hash out with each other because nobody is happy with this state of affairs and there is almost certainly some solution where they're both happier than they are now. (Hey, maybe there's some alternate style of landscaping that would improve the property value and be more low-maintenance; conversely, maybe there's a different kind of garden/yard/whatever that they could put in that he'd like working on, at least more than he does this one! Or, you know, maybe they need to look into moving to another property with less outside work! There, that's three options off the top of my head that are not/i> the advice columnist's rather useless answer.) (For some reason, I'm reminded of the letter-and-updates from earlier this week, about the two-lawyer couple where the husband started out being self-righteous about personal development--- and by extension personal misery--- and came to the realization that he was the one with the problem. I don't think this one is going to be that bad, but then again it might be once they dig under why husband is insisting on doing something he hates when there are other options.)