My wife has had a tough week. Our 11 month old daughter has a nasty cold and is cranky as all hell. Between fighting with kidzilla at meal time and waking up every 2 hours at night because kidzilla is not sleeping well my wife's stress level is at 11.

I try to help out as much as I can but between looking after our other daughter and work there's only so much I can do. Plus, as with most kids when they're sick she wants mama not me.

On top of all that my wife has somehow managed to get an infection in her toe so she's been hobbling around for the last 3 days.

Tonight after the usual circus of routine activities and putting the kids to bed I see that my wife is in dire need of some hug therapy. As I'm hugging her and stroking her hair she breaks into a sob and her arms are flailing about.

I say "I know you've had a tough week but it'll be ok, you're doing the best you can". She screams "You're standing on my toe!"

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