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‘There’s a file under his desk and all his papers from the week – whether it’s Latin or history – have to go in.’
Despite being 5 600km away from her Manhattan home (Sarah is in London to promote her unisex perfume Stash SJP. ‘Now I can say I’ve made a fragrance for humans!’ she says of the black-pepper-and-patchouli-laced perfume, which I happen to think is her best to date), she’s struggling to loosen her grip on the details of daily life chez Parker-Broderick.
‘I do a lot, because I’m controlling,’ she says, when I ask if she and Matthew share domestic duties. ‘I’m a person who’s fastidious and exacting, and so I do a huge amount. What is surprising is how much [my husband] can do and does in my absence. Everybody gets where they need to be. But still, he’s not going to put everything away at night. When I come home, I can see the path.’
Ah, yes, the notorious man trail. In our house we have ‘Annabel clean’ and ‘Jason clean’, I tell her. ‘Oh, that’s so great! I’m going to use that from now on. Is it SJ clean or Matthew clean?!’
In the end, she doesn’t send the e-mail. ‘They really must do it their way,’ she concedes. But which working mother doesn’t understand the conflict between wanting a man to share in the duties, then immediately jumping in to make sure it’s done a certain way?
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Good Housekeeping South Africa.
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