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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't we already have this conversation...multiple times? He ain't doing jack. Get used to it.

And for poster #2 - many of OP's example require mental labor. Would you rather be sipping margaritas on a lounger by the pool or pouring over a digital calendar trying to see when Kid A is free from soccer camp and you aren't going on a grocery run to see when you can schedule the orthodontist trip you forgot?

One example is called relaxing.

The other is called labor. Which adds up into fatigue and exhaustion.[/quote]

This is life, a very basic and easy first world life at that.. You have to think. [b]Life is not sitting on a chair drinking yourself or pickled.[/b] There is nothing challenging about making a shopping list, finding one of hundreds of pediatricians in the area, or scheduling camp. Hard mental work is performing hand surgery, rewiring your homes electric, searching for fresh water daily for your family, hard is having a tooth ache and no access to a dentist, hard is or rebuilding an engine. Deciding between YMCA or art camp is not a struggle. Unless you are mentally challenged. [/quote]

It is for me. It's called having enough money to outsource.

But for women as shown above who can't, they are taking on 85% of that labor (zero pay) and their DHs are complaining if asked to do 15%. I mean if that's what you signed up for fine, but don't act like labor, mentally or physically, isn't such. Whether its in a cubicle and you're doing it for a company or at your kitchen table and you're doing it for people who disregard it as in any way worthwhile.

Imagine if it didn't get done. [/quote]

No, it's called being an addict.[/quote]

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