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[quote=Anonymous]I just need to vent.

This drives me crazy.  My DH works part time (but makes more money than me).  I wake up at 5:30am, leave the house by 7:30am, do daycare drop-off, and I get back home around 7pm.  DH gets up around 11am, leaves for work around noon-ish, does daycare pick-up and gets home around 5pm.  I do 99% of the chores, laundry, cooking, etc.  We have had bad arguments wherein I have asked him to step up and do more, but it's been pretty useless.  Before we got married, I had a serious talk with him about not wanting to get married unless we had a 50/50 partnership.  We used to before we married and DS was born.  He even used to make dinner.  But after DS was born, he basically told me that he was the man of the house, and the housework was the wife's job.  I stayed, thinking it could be worked out, and because of financial reasons and of course, having a child in the mix now.  Occasionally, he will do some sort of chore, but then he expects me to thank him profusely and shower him with praise for it.

Case in point - he hasn't worked at all so far this week (but I have).  I came home yesterday, and he's like, "notice anything?"  He makes me walk around and look for something.  Turns out he had cleaned the toilet during a brief break from sitting on the couch watching TV/surfing the internet all day long, and he wanted me to notice and praise him for it.  Doesn't he realize how many times a WEEK *I* clean the toilets????  Do I ever get praise from him for doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, keeping our finances, paying our bills, etc.???

I can't live like this anymore.  I'm calling a divorce attorney.  [/quote]

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