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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I’m happy. We’ve divided up “zones.”

His zones:
Food (meal planning, grocery ordering, cooking)
School (communication, putting events on the shared calendar, volunteering)
Finances
Church (registering for Sunday school, volunteering)
Potty training
Extracurriculars
Trash
Date night planning/babysitters

My zones:
Laundry
Kids clothes (buying, tracking what’s outgrown, organizing hand me downs)
Buying stuff we need and keeping the house stocked (water bottles, school supplies, baby gear, toys, furniture, garbage bags, paper towels, etc)
Household maintenance and repairmen
School lottery and research
Nanny
Summer camps
Kids chores (management, assignment, teaching)
Parenting research/problem solving

Shared:
Childcare 
Cleaning

I’m sure there are some zones I’m forgetting, but that’s the jist. We trust each other to handle our stuff. We also both work similar hours, with similar stress and similar incomes. We’re very happy together and very happy with our chore balance. [/quote]

Oh wow.  I do all of this with the exception of summer camp.  I also do the lawn care, which isn’t on your list, but I like to do it.  DH is also in charge of pest control, gift giving (including Christmas), and car maintenance.

It drives me crazy sometimes. [b] I make about 1/3 of what DH makes[/b], but he does not do anything like 25% of the household chores.

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How many hours do you each work and how stressful is the work?

My best friend is a Kindergarten teacher so she works really hard but doesn't get paid that much. Her husband has a stupid office job where he makes a bit more than her but acts like he is so important and works "harder" when in reality he just sits at his desk and comes home for lunch for an hour every day. He does NOTHING around the house. I can't fathom being with someone who wouldn't throw in a load of laundry or clean the kitchen or get dinner started or do anything during their HOUR of sitting at home at lunch. He just watches TV or plays on his phone. So yeah, he out-earns her (although he's not exactly a high earner himself, I think he makes around $65K), but she works infinitely harder.

So, PP, I don't think it matters that you make less than your husband unless that translates into you working fewer hours and/or having a much less stressful job. [/quote]

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