"Thank You"

Now i don't know about your husband but mine sometimes drives me crazy! Being a stay at home mom, I don't mind washing and folding cloths, cleaning the house and cooking dinner....actually i really enjoy it. I love being home with my son and having dinner ready for my husband when he gets home. And all I want it return is "thank you" is that really so hard? well for my husband it was... that is until we had the "we need to talk" talk. I laugh now thinking about how that went....he sits down i hand him his food and nothing....i wait and still nothing he finally looked up at me with a blank stare...."what?" and then i came undone, which now that i think of it wasn't fare i had been festering all day about it, and he had know idea what he had just opened up! I looked at him and i couldn't speak i just couldn't comprehend why he couldn't say thank you? was it really that hard?? So unable to keep my frustration hidden any longer let him have it....after i was finished i realized that i had made absolutely no sence what so ever at least to him...who just kept staring...which just made me even more infuriated! Chris had no idea what he had done wrong. Him not appreciating what i had done for him was a stab in the heart to me and at least for my husband who calls himself an "emotional retard" he thought i was being selfish that it was all about me and well at that point in the conversation it was! my needs were not getting met. But i realize now that i had gone about it wrong...i had let him get away with it for sometime now and all of a sudden i was mad about it...and that wasn't fare to him. For those of you who don't know my husband he is brilliant but the little simple things is were he struggle...so to finish the story we put Reid to bed that night and we finished talking... i explained calmly my feelings and he really tried to understand he explained that he was very thankful for what i do for our family but he just never thought to express it... not to be mean or anything (Chris doesn't have a mean bone in his body) he just didn't realize what a big deal it was to me...its so funny how God created men and women....my husband is emotionally stunted and i have enough for the both of us and yet we make it work. i went to bed that night wondering why i had let this weigh on me for so long...my best friend was there the whole time and i never talked to him about it and that's what had gone wrong...communication is were it went wrong! The next night I gave him his plate and i sat next to him and not only did i get a "thank you" but i got a hug and a kiss!!! Its so amazing to me that just a few words from the man you love can mean so much!!! It truly made my night!