A card from Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
Serious Illness
When a child falls ill, the implications can be life-changing. If you are managing someone else’s illness, it can require hours of research, doctors’ appointments, treatment plans, and medication monitoring. Thankfully, you can ask your partner to step in and support you. If, however, it’s you or your spouse who is ill, the healthier person may need to take on more cards in addition to holding this Wild card. Rather than allowing resentment or fear to build, ask for what you need and re-deal as circumstances change.
How Wild cards work
The Wild suit includes life-changing scenarios that rock your world, and come with a mind-numbing amount of invisible work. When you’re dealt a Wild card (hopefully temporarily), you’re entitled to ask for additional help from your partner guilt-free. Your partner is encouraged to reach out to your village for even more support, but the Wild cardholder is not the one who handles this delegation. You and your partner are also encouraged to remove cards from your deck, temporarily, while dealing with a Wild card.
Suggested Minimum Standard of Care
Do you feel supported to take the lead on this wildcard? Will your partner be stepping up to take on other cards?
A starting point. You and your partner agree the real standard together, and the holder meets it without reminders.
Holding it well
- Whoever is dealt this card can ask for more help, guilt-free.
- Their partner picks up other cards and reaches out to the wider village.
- Set non-essential cards aside temporarily, and re-deal at your next check-in.
Put this card on your table
Deal it, agree its standard, and see who holds what. Free.