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First off let me state that for the most part I have lived in the South east part of the U.S most of my life. I wasn't born there. I am not trying to state anything negative about the South either. I have family in Tennessee & North Carolina. My mom lives in South Georgia. Now maybe this is a Southern thing but my mom & her relatives do not understand why I would get up to do something for my wife. To them it's waiting on her hand & foot as they like to say. It also might be something to do with
the times they grew up in the man went out & paid the bills & the women stayed home & cooked & cleaned. My mom asked this question to me the other night & said that she doesn't understand it, why I would get her said thing. I told her that to me it was a different time & people don't have traditional roles anymore.
First off let me state that for the most part I have lived in the South east part of the U.S most of my life. I wasn't born there. I am not trying to state anything negative about the South either. I have family in Tennessee & North Carolina. My mom lives in South Georgia. Now maybe this is a Southern thing but my mom & her relatives do not understand why I would get up to do something for my wife. To them it's waiting on her hand & foot as they like to say. It also might be something to do with
the times they grew up in the man went out & paid the bills & the women stayed home & cooked & cleaned. My mom asked this question to me the other night & said that she doesn't understand it, why I would get her said thing. I told her that to me it was a different time & people don't have traditional roles anymore.
What say you?
Depends. We need context.
Do you mean ALL THE TIME??? Is your wife just ordering you around from the couch? That doesn't sound very Southern.
Sorry, I mean if she's sick or it's my turn to cook dinner, breakfast. Etc.
Sounds like they're jealous that their husbands didn't have similar regard for them. I don't know if it's a Southern thing - I think it might just be more of a generational thing, with the South a little bit behind the North in terms of attitudes in a very general sense.
Kind of funny that they're chiding you for being a decent human being. But older generations can be like that when their preconceptions are challenged.
I'm a southern girl and every married couple I know consists of spouses who do things for each other....so I'd have to say no, you wanting to be a considerate husband is not out if the ordinary. It could however be an age thing...older married couples (as in my grandparent's age) seem to function more with the wife doing more for her husband...
Not necessarily southern. Lived in Tennessee 2.5 years and there were plenty of sahm, but a lot of the men I met were not opposed to more modern roles. I think more would be baffled by a woman that wasn't a church goer, the Bible Belt south basically means that it's very rare to meet an atheist or Christian that doesn't go to church regularly. But folks in non-traditional marriages? Would not be a problem.
I have to admit I absolutely love southern men, there's nothing like em'.
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