OMG, I feel your pain. On the occasions DH helps me, he messes up my routine and then he makes comments like “this is why it takes you so long - you don’t always do things the same way.” And I say no, I do always do things the same way except when you “help” and your “helping” messes up my routine! We are both firmly convinced that we are right.
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And they actually think they’re being very helpful! But it was kind of cute when he would volunteer to cool out my gelding while I cleaned tack. I always loved looking into the distance seeing my two boys out together having “guy time.”
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Decades ago, now-retired trainer John Lyons had a terrific board on his website. It funtioned like a chat sitte in the everning.with a several dozen people discussing all sorts of different topics. Every once in a while a distraught wife would ask what to do about her non-horsey hubby. The experts (I’m not one) said:
Train him just like you train your horses. Use your JL Ground Control Manual. Just make sure you start on page 1. Remember to create a lesson plan, work in tiny steps, and be ready for a step backwards after a couple of steps forward. If that happens, go back to something he does well and restart the process. Otherwise you create holes in his training.
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haha!!
John Lyons was a big deal in my little QH world back in the day 
