Coming home to that mess is a gut punch. Ryanf66 has a point about unseen struggles, but three weeks of dishes is a real problem. Maybe your spouse could handle just one daily thing, like running the dishwasher, even if nothing else gets done. When you're back, you take over all the cleaning for a few days to reset. It's not fair, but sometimes you have to fix the system before it runs right.

Wait, you knew what concert she liked for MONTHS?

My credit report has more drama than my last relationship!

Check your loop body too. Were you trying to use that index to pop items from the list while iterating? I've done that before. Removing items changes the list length and the remaining indexes, which makes a reverse loop actually the right move sometimes. Your mistake might have been a fix for a different problem you didn't know you had.

Man, my buddy did almost the exact same thing with a tarp for a vest. He wore that thing for a whole summer doing yard work, hiking, you name it. It never really got soft, but it did start to crease and fold at the elbows and shoulders just from moving. It's still stiff as a board everywhere else though. I guess that stuff is just meant to be tough, not comfortable. He ended up using it as a layer for really rough jobs where it didn't matter.