Rafa and I recently had a conversation with our pastor that went something like this:

Pastor: “We will be out of town during the meeting. Could one of you guys do announcements?”

Sarah: “Sure, Rafa would love to.”

There is a word for this, my friends: I voluntold Rafa.

Previously a staple of the corporate world (e.g. “My boss voluntold me to work on the project this Saturday”), I now find myself voluntelling in our marriage.

It is quite easy to slip into a habit of volunteering my husband for something I tell him to do. Yikes, that sounded…bad. And it is, which is why I have taking the pledge to not be a volunteller.  I’ll ask next time (but I will laugh every time I think of the word!).