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Reply to "Making it work when the wife is the one with the "big job" - s/o today's NY Times article"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would be the reaction here if a man proclaimed proudly that he “trained his wife”? [/quote] Well I wouldn’t say it to him but it’s true. Because of ingrained gender roles in this country, if you want something different for your relationship, you often have to be very explicit in defining your expectations. I let him know that I wouldn’t put up with certain behaviors and attitudes (like thinking that cooking or grocery shopping is “women’s work,” being embarrased to take his daughter to ballet or braid her hair, or thinking he doesn’t need to remember his kids’ conference dates or volunteer in their schools or get up with sick kids, etc. etc.) and he had to decide if that was something he wanted to live with. He decided he did. How else would you like me to describe it? [/quote]
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