Two spouses: a play

[Anonymous]

Act 1
A happy family, one husband, one wife and three lovely children. Child A has a holiday performance on Thursday morning and needs to wear a “green Christmas sweater, blue jeans and white sneakers” per teacher instructions. Child 2 has Christmas caroling at the old people’s home on Friday and needs a red dress and plate of cookies. Child 3 is receiving an award for a speech on Friday also, and will be needing a birthday present for friend’s party that same afternoon. Wife takes care of all of these things noiselessly, on top of regular work. She also lets husband know where to be on performance and award day.
Act 2
Husband: shows up.
Act 3
Society: why do women complain about mental labor? It’s a fiction that only exists in their hysterical imaginations and they invent tasks to do because they are hysterical.

Curtain.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a terrible play.

[Anonymous]

Act 4: Divorce or deal.

[Anonymous]

🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

[Anonymous]

OP sounds like an idiot. Please grow up and find a better use for your time.

[Anonymous]

I love this! Thank you OP!

[Anonymous]

This play needs a crisis and resolution.

[Anonymous]

Stupid play. The end.

[Anonymous]

A rewrite could make this sparkle.

[Anonymous]

Act 4: cue acrimonious divorce, where wife ends up paying husband a ridiculous amount of child support for him to “maintain their lifestyle” but wife still does everything for the kids. Husband pads his retirement account. Wife shops for and purchases all clothing for said holiday performances. Husband continues to do nothing but show up.

Oh yes- my divorce lawyer said- “women get pissed when they get divorced that their husband, who contributed nothing during the marriage, continue to contribute nothing after the marriage.

Oh wait this isn’t a play it’s my real freaking life 😑😑😑

At least I don’t still have to b*ng him

[Anonymous]

Who organized all these events to begin with? Start there.

[Anonymous]

So glad our marriage is not set up like this.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of the term mental labor. But now I will use it.
Explains why I'm often so tired even though my watch count says I had below average number of steps!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP sounds like an idiot. Please grow up and find a better use for your time.

+1. The teacher in Act 1 should be fired. Lol

[Anonymous]

I bet the husband was so great during the baby and toddler phase that wife kept having more kids...