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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Me: All the laundry, cooking, cleaning up after meals, grocery shopping, banking, managing our investment portfolio, transportation of 3 kids to and from school and to and from extracurriculars, dealing with contractors/home repair, maintaining our cars, managing care takers for my father-in-law who has alzheimers. All of the kids doctor's appointment etc., pet care.  We hire house cleaners and landscapers.

DH: Either mows the lawn or has one of our kids do it. What spare time he has, he spends with me or the kids but rarely does any household chores.

We've been in our respective roles for 12 years now and DH would like to trade places. Some days that sounds good to me too. However, when we go through the pros and cons (whatever job I find will pay a fraction of what DH makes, and DH only wants to take on part of my responsibilities, not all of them) we always decide that it is better as is. I am a SAHM of school age kids, and despite handling all of the chores, I do have more free time than DH, who works long hours and travels.[/quote]

Similar here. DH's job involves long hours and frequent travel. I run the house and raise the kids and this includes cooking, shopping, errands, overseeing the finances, organizing the million and one appointments we all seem to need every year, buy the clothes including for DH, manage the cleaners, make sure the cars are running fine, tidying up when needed, looking after the pets, planning the vacations, making sure we spend enough time with family and friends and to be frank, DH would have no social life without me. Whenever his friends call to set up a tennis or golf game 90% of the time I'm the one answering the phone and confirming if it looks like he has the time free.

I don't mind at all. It's old fashioned but it works well for us. DH brings in a good income that allows us to live comfortably and we're a happy family. [/quote]

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