Iñaki Urdangarin explains in The Vanguard your new everyday life. And it goes like this: "It's very routine. I get up early, play sports, go to work, and then I dedicate myself to different hobbies and do the housework with my partner. When I have my children, I enjoy being with them. It's an orderly life."
I was moved to read that you do the housework with your partner. Wow. It means that they don't have a wife to do the work. They do it together. But every day. Hacer el sabbath is an expression that –as opposed to celebra el sabbath– indicates that it's the day to tidy up, do laundry, sweep. The other days, normally, collection And enough. She picks up the dishes, the laundry, tidies up, and complains if she has teenagers or other comparable bipeds, but she doesn't do things like deep cleaning, for example, because work outside the home is very exhausting, and when you get home, at most you make dinner while having a glass of wine and watering the potted plants. Making dinner, or—if you're very lucky—lunch, with a loving partner, can be considered housework, but it's something else entirely. Making dinner, or—if you're very lucky—lunch, with a loving partner, means that you still—one day it won't be like that—don't bother in the kitchen. It means that you don't make a face like an angry bee if you want to open the fridge while the other accidentally stops you because they're putting a frozen fish in the microwave. It has nothing to do with whether the kitchen is small or large, that's what I'm saying. It's a state of mind. One day you cut a carrot and he'll eat it, like in a Woody Allen movie, and the next day you want to pour the fish into the organic waste bin and you gasp because he's right in the middle of it.
Are you referring to Saturday work, Iñaki Urdangarin, or to weekday work? I once read an article about his former brother-in-law, the monarch. They explained, as something extraordinary, that at dinners with friends, "he himself prepared the gin and tonics." Perhaps, after so many years of service and chief of protocol, after prison, Urdangarin now enjoys being an ordinary person. I'm sure of it. You can tell how much love there is in a couple just by watching them clear the plates after dinner.
