I'm a marathoner, and my DH's favorite saying is that he gets his exercise watching me come back down the street from a run around the neighborhood. He used to play golf, and friends of ours often invite him (his excuse is that he lost his clubs - but our son, just a little taller - stores his beautiful set in our garage). He used to run track, and constantly reminds me that he was a high school track star - but, it's everything I can do to get him to take a little 20-minute walk with me. His excuse is always his allergies (granted, we have a particularly high allergen count where we live).
Your DH is probably still acclimating to working from home, even though it has been a year. It takes a lot of discipline to be productive, and still maintain a good level of physical activity, when the fridge and sofa are so conveniently located.
Something I learned from my DH is to dress as though I'm going into the office. Your whole attitude changes and you are less likely to slip into what Tim Gunn, of Project Runway, calls "the slobification of America" - the all-too-casual attitudes about dressing and lack of attention to our physical well-being. When he's working from home, my DH dresses much like he would for work, without the blazer. I used to get really annoyed about his "dressing up" to mow the lawn - now, that was taking things to an extreme, LOL! Well, I suppose that's better than wearing socks with shorts and sandals.
What IS your DH interested in doing? Do you have a friend/neighbor who also works from home? Who does the grocery shopping (chip control, here)? Men often take the suggestions we women try to impart as "nagging," so the concept of making it seem his idea to go out and do something together still has merit.
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I can totally relate to this!
I'm a marathoner, and my DH's favorite saying is that he gets his exercise watching me come back down the street from a run around the neighborhood. He used to play golf, and friends of ours often invite him (his excuse is that he lost his clubs - but our son, just a little taller - stores his beautiful set in our garage). He used to run track, and constantly reminds me that he was a high school track star - but, it's everything I can do to get him to take a little 20-minute walk with me. His excuse is always his allergies (granted, we have a particularly high allergen count where we live).
Your DH is probably still acclimating to working from home, even though it has been a year. It takes a lot of discipline to be productive, and still maintain a good level of physical activity, when the fridge and sofa are so conveniently located.
Something I learned from my DH is to dress as though I'm going into the office. Your whole attitude changes and you are less likely to slip into what Tim Gunn, of Project Runway, calls "the slobification of America" - the all-too-casual attitudes about dressing and lack of attention to our physical well-being. When he's working from home, my DH dresses much like he would for work, without the blazer. I used to get really annoyed about his "dressing up" to mow the lawn - now, that was taking things to an extreme, LOL! Well, I suppose that's better than wearing socks with shorts and sandals.
What IS your DH interested in doing? Do you have a friend/neighbor who also works from home? Who does the grocery shopping (chip control, here)? Men often take the suggestions we women try to impart as "nagging," so the concept of making it seem his idea to go out and do something together still has merit.
March 2, 2009 - 6:55pmThis Comment
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