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I would have been very pleased if my wife has become the breadwinner and made enough to support both of us. I would have stopped working and, after the normal household chores, worked in my metal working shop on whatever folks would pay me to build. This never happened because a modern household requires a steady documentable income stream in order to obtain mortgages, insurance and other irritating aspects of this economy.
Wife: The grass is really high. You should go out there and mow it.
Me: Ah, I don't feel like it. Hire a Haitian to do it.
Wife: You ARE a Haitian.
Hire a Haitian. Hire a white guy. Hire an Asian. Just spend a few bucks and make your life easier.
Twenty years ago the housekeepers were Hispanic and the and the gardeners white. After the government opened the doors they are all Hispanic.
I'm not picking on Mexicans. The fact is if you want those services these days the chances of finding anyone but a Mexican is slim. At least in California.
Not that I have any problem with any of those things, but I noticed there was nothing in your reply about a fulfilling or lasting relationship with anybody. That's telling.
All those "feminists" are having sex with each other or some appliance.
e.g., oh, honey, if you want to go hunting this fall, you have to get yourself a newspaper carrier job in the mornings and save up for it, and oh, btw, why wasn't my suit dropped off at the dry cleaners?
Wife complaining to coworker:
I'm getting tired of having to eat off of dirty dishes.
Coworker: how old is your dishwasher?
Wife: He'll be 56 this July.
I'd like to know, for the women who **** and moan that their husbands do not do the share of the household chores, do you women also, cut the lawn, shovel the snow, do other yard work, fix things around the house that need to be?
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Originally Posted by Lilac110
From the article:
No kidding. If the breadwinning men of the 50s had to come home and do the lion's share of housework and child-rearing after a hard day at work, they would have been unhappy, too. I wonder why these women end up doing more chores. Oh, wait, I was that woman. For me at least, it was because he slacked off. He figured that if I was taking care of the bills, that was just in addition to taking care of the chores. Seems he assumed that the chores were inherently mine to begin with. The paycheck was just gravy. No thanks.
However, the author does note that it's not necessarily possible to tell who becomes unhappy first, the woman or the man.
I'd like to know, for the women who **** and moan that their husbands do not do the share of the household chores, do you women also, cut the lawn, shovel the snow, do other yard work, fix things around the house that need to be?
I definitely don't complain about my dh not doing work both in and out of the house. He does it all, as do I, and I wouldn't have it any other way (god knows why any woman would). With that said, as a DIY'er who has installed my own wood flooring, hung doors, built a gate and an arbor for our fence, which I was installing with my husband until I got pregnant, and a host of other projects, I find most average guys to be lacking in the skill department to manage "fixes" around the home. Also, mowing the lawn and shoveling snow is not a daily task like cooking and cleaning. If it is you're doing it wrong.
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