When my husband says he did the dishes, is it a black hole or some shift in the gravatational force that doesn't let him see the pots on the stove? Or is he just ignoring them in hopes that I'll do them?

Ah, perhaps I can help translate. I speak Husbandese (natively).
He did "do" the dishes, as my people say. You see, if there is water in the pots with some soap in them left out over night in the sink, they are "still soaking", which is a Husbandese word for "done". All you need to do is rinse them, dry them, and put them away the next morning, but technically they are "done".
Hope that helps.