My brother simply called last week to tell me his air conditioning unit broke down.
I knew he was looking for me to offer to come over and repair the a/c.
My wife had already warned me that if I worked for free for his family one more time, she would leave. It seemed that whenever I had time off, one of my family members would call and ask me to labor on their heating and A/C system. I was busy spending most of my off hours laboring for free., and my wife had enough. She wanted my corporation, and didn’t want to spend all our time with the family. Her family didn’t impose on us, and she didn’t think mine should. I didn’t mind laboring on the family’s heating and A/C equipment, but I was too fatigued from being used. No matter what I was doing, they thought I had to drop it and come running. I think my wife’s final straw broke when my buddy and I were at the lake. We were celebrating our sixth anniversary and made reservations to spend a week at the lake in one of their cottages. At two o’clock in the afternoon, my uncle called. His air conditioning quit working and my aunt couldn’t sleep. I told him I was out of town with my wife, despite the fact that he laid on the guilt trip. She told me if I left, she was leaving. I called the heating and A/C corporation and put in an emergency call. Since I didn’t show up, my uncle told them I was going to pay the bill. My brother called within a couple of mornings of this happening, and had my wife furious. I told my brother I was tied up and shut the iphone off.