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Auntyji

I have a special problem that I need your help with. Auntyji, for the 15 years that we have been married, I have been doing all the cooking in the house. Now I also hold down a corporate job as a project manager in a bank. About a year ago, Shalja decided that she was going to help me in the kitchen because as she said, we are a team and we should support each other. At first things were a bit tense in the kitchen because she tended to get in the way, but we have found a good rhythm to working together. But she does things that really irritate me

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Email it to info@indianlink.com.au thinking to see that I have already started frying the cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves, ginger, chillies and tejpatti and that I will need the diced onion almost immediately. And, it’s like she does not have the foresight to

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My goodness, you poor man. I can see just how frustrating this is for you. While I do not expect her to read your mind, I can see how you would expect, at a bare minimum, some basic understanding of the critical path of activities. I mean, anyone with an ounce of brain can see the logic of the priorities of tasks - frying onions and spices takes precedence over asking the family about events that are further downstream. Your wife has decided that in the kitchen she will pay the part of a docile, submissive dimwit who takes instructions literally and does not apply any logic, critical analysis, deep thinking and basic courtesy for understanding your needs as cook. In other words, your wife is a hindrance

August 2023

BY MINAL KHONA

Minal Khona has been reading tarot cards for the last two decades. She uses her intuition and connect with the cards mostly to help people.

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