Adapted from an online discussion.

Hi, Carolyn! I am concerned about my husband, and I want to know how to approach it with him. He is a brilliant man, but he’s a bit eccentric. He was recently laid off from his job, presumably due to budget cuts. I make enough money to support both of us, so he agreed to be a “house husband” for the foreseeable future.

Really, I saw this as a blessing because his old job has cost him so much stress, and this would give him more time to bond with our daughter.

The problem is that now, he spends all day doing unfinished projects in our backyard! I don’t even know what he does out there. First he said he was planting a garden, but when nothing grew, he started talking about dealing with a fungal infection. Then he tried to make a koi pond, which ended up

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