Lol, it is an expensive piece of garbage that does not even do the job for which it is explicitly designed and requires more time maintaining it than you would spend doing the job it's supposed to do "automatically" yourself. But yes, do tell me how freaking roombas are the solution to gender inequality in the home |
This is kind of like when housewives were told that laundry machines would liberate them from housework, and then we just raised the standards for cleanliness so that now you are supposed to wash clothes after every wear and if people smell like natural sweat or body odor, it's a failure. Culturally, we work extremely hard to keep women occupied with BS like washing and folding, or rescuing the roomba from under the stairs. |
Based on that abstract, you are saying that you are indeed happy because you are experiencing the "unpleasant emotions" (their words) you want to experience, namely smugness and anger at people different from you... congrats? |
I can literally hire a teenager that will do a better job at these tasks than my husband. It really isn’t that there is no pleasing me. It’s that he doesn’t care. It’s so bizarre because he claims to care and says that he wants to me be happy and less stressed. |
PP ask yourself why you have so much anger towards the pp? You know what they say about defensive people? We are hitting too close to the truth. Again why should it only be up to the wife to come up with $350 to "make HER life better?" A clean house helps everyone! |
dp I agree pp. The tone right from the start has been very negative. But, I think it is because it hits too on the nose. For me, I lowered my standards and my dh has picked up the slack in a lot of areas. |
Exactly. Like the solution of “just use a dishwasher” when everyone *knows* the results won’t be as good. It ignores the larger issue. |
Most people especially with small kids aren’t OK with big chunks of dirt constantly on the floor. |
Yes, dad privilege is claiming “it’s ok for the baby to crawl around on filthy floors! stop being a nag.” |
DP. Maybe most people are idiots who are making work for themselves they don't have to. Floor dirt is, at worst, harmless and probably beneficial for a small kid to be around. It's certainly not a "standard" to keep up if its making you and other people around you miserable. |
I feel bad for the moms who feel this way. My DH and I both work, and both do the parenting. We are both lawyers with busy careers. My DH enjoys doing grocery shopping and cooking. He also enjoys being a dad, and so does half of the parenting and household stuff, for sure. So I think it's crucial to pick the right husband. If the moms have all of these complaints, maybe they settled for the wrong husband? Also, my own dad (now in his 80's) was not like the dad described in the article. He was a super active dad and never assumed my mom would cover things. My dad cooked dinner on weeknights, and my mom cooked dinner on weekends. (My mom was a top realtor in our area when I was a kid/teen.) |
To the PP with the messy DH who tracks mud through the house etc-- that does not mean that all men are messy. That just means that your DH is that way.
My DH (age 53) keeps things clean, and always picks up after himself. When he cooks, he washes the pots and pans along the way. His mom taught him all of these things when he was growing up. If a man is really messy, it's possible that he might have a learning disability such as ADHD that impacts motivation (as I have a son like that . . even though he was raised in a clean house where everyone picks up after their own messes). In the college dorms where my kids have lived, I've noticed that the students from foreign countries can be much neater than the average American student, many of whom seem content to live like slobs. |
The bolded is the crux of the argument, actually. You are either incapable of understanding or too stubborn to accept that some people truly DO.NOT.CARE if there’s some dirt on the floor or if the robot vacuum missed a spot (after all, it’ll get that spot next time… or maybe it won’t… I don’t really care). Or any other matters relating to a clean house, healthy cooking, curated/limited screen time, social engagements, etc. It’s not that they EXPECT you to do these things for them, they just don’t care if these things get done or not. Many people truly do not even notice or think about half of the complaints in this thread. Your standards are not the CORRECT standards… they are simply YOUR standards. And while I am sure that your standards are indeed higher and that everyone in your life would be better off if they lived up to them, the sad truth is that as long as they aren’t doing anything illegal, no adult is required to live by any standards but their own. In other words, you are not the boss. You don’t get to make the rules and then demand that your spouse follow them. The sooner you can accept that reality, the happier you will be. |
I disagree. I think a lot of guys do care that someone maintains normal cleanliness standards. That’s why they remarry quickly. Living in filth gets old. |
I haven't read any replies but that article is pure rubbish. I guess some women are married to men like that, and that's sad, but it is far from a universal truth. |